{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-drivers-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-drivers-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/239",
  "legislation_title": "The Taxi Drivers’ Licences Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-drivers-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Evidence of result of taxi theory test",
  "text": "(1) A person conducting the taxi theory test shall furnish—\n(a) a person who passes the test with a taxi theory test pass certificate in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3;\n(b) a person who fails to pass the test with a taxi theory test failure statement in the form set out in of Part 2 of Schedule 3.\n(2) Where a person who has conducted a taxi theory test is satisfied that a taxi theory test pass certificate or a taxi theory test failure statement has been furnished in error to a person who took a taxi theory test, they shall, upon receipt of that certificate or statement from the person who took the test and subject to paragraph (3), furnish that person with a correct certificate or statement, as the case may be.\n(3) Where the person who took the taxi theory test alleges that a taxi theory test failure statement has been furnished in error returns the statement not later than 14 days after it was sent to them to the person who conducted the test with a request in writing that the paper be remarked, the person who conducted the test shall comply with that request for the purpose of ascertaining whether an error has been made but subject thereto they shall not be obliged to remark any paper.\n(4) A taxi theory test pass certificate issued in error may not be presented, in support of an application for a taxi driver’s licence, as evidence that a person has passed the taxi theory test mentioned in such certificate.\n(5) A taxi theory test pass certificate shall be valid for the purposes of regulation 17(1)(b)(ii) for a period commencing on the date on which the taxi theory test was taken and ending—\n(a) 2 years later; or\n(b) on the date on which the person to whom the certificate was given is disqualified by order of a court under Article 41 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 until tested,\nwhichever is the earlier.\n(6) A taxi theory test pass certificate is invalid if the person to whom it is issued is at that time ineligible, by virtue of a provision contained in the Act or these Regulations, to take the taxi theory test to which the certificate relates.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in operation at 31.10.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/239/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:05:35.079055+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}