{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-drivers-certificates-of-professional-competence-regulations-2007/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-drivers-certificates-of-professional-competence-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Requirement to carry and produce evidence of CPC or of training exemption in vehicle",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a person (“P”) who is required by virtue of regulation 9(4)—\n(a) to hold a CPC, a national periodic CPC or a Swiss CPC, or\n(b) to have completed a national return to driving course,\nis guilty of an offence if P does not carry in the relevant vehicle which P is driving evidence of that CPC, national periodic CPC, Swiss CPC or completion of that national return to driving course as specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The evidence referred to in paragraph (1) is—\n(a) in the case of a CPC—\n(i) a valid driver qualification card;\n(ii) a Community licence bearing the Union code;\n(iii) a driver attestation, provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as it has effect in EU law as amended from time to time, granted to the driver by a member State and, if issued on or after May 2020, bearing the Union code;\n(iv) any other written record obtained by the driver in a member State or Gibraltar certifying an initial CPC or a periodic CPC;\n(b) in the case of a national periodic CPC, a valid national driver qualification card;\n(c) in the case of a Swiss CPC—\n(i) a Swiss CPC;\n(ii) any other document issued to the driver by Switzerland certifying a Swiss initial CPC or a Swiss periodic CPC and recognised by the competent authority as evidence of such for the purposes of this regulation;\n(d) in the case of having completed a national return to driving course, a valid national driver qualification card.\n(3) A person (“P”) to whom regulation 4(9) applies, or who holds an initial CPC obtained in a member State or Gibraltar, is guilty of an offence if P does not carry in the relevant vehicle P is driving evidence as specified in paragraph (2)(a) of the initial CPC that P holds.\n(3A) A person (“P”) to whom regulation 4(9A) applies, or who holds a Swiss initial CPC, is guilty of an offence if P does not carry in the relevant vehicle P is driving evidence as specified in paragraph (2)(c) of the Swiss initial CPC that P holds.\n(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person—\n(a) who has been issued with a driver qualification card or national driver qualification card by the competent authority under whichever of regulations 8A to 8AD applies but has not yet received it; or\n(b) whose driver qualification card or national driver qualification card has been damaged, lost or stolen, who has notified the competent authority under regulation 8B(1) and who has paid the fee specified in regulation 8B(2) but who has not yet received a replacement card.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (5A), a person (“P”) to whom regulation 4(5) applies is guilty of an offence if P does not carry an NVT certificate in the relevant vehicle P is driving.\n(5A) Paragraph (5) does not apply to a person—\n(a) who has been issued with an NVT certificate by the competent authority but has not yet received it; or\n(b) whose NVT certificate has been damaged, lost or stolen, who has notified the competent authority under regulation 8B(1) and who has paid the fee specified in regulation 8B(2) but who has not yet received a replacement certificate.\n(5B) In paragraphs (4)(b) and (5A)(b), the reference to the fee specified in regulation 8B(2) is a reference to the fee insofar as it has not been waived under regulation 8B(3).\n(5C) Paragraph (5D) applies if it appears to—\n(a) in Great Britain, a stopping officer, or\n(b) in Northern Ireland, a vehicle examiner,\nthat the vehicle a person is driving could be a relevant vehicle.\n(5D) The stopping officer or vehicle examiner may direct the driver to stop the vehicle for the purpose of enabling a vehicle examiner to exercise the powers under paragraph (6).\n(6) A police constable or vehicle examiner may at any time require a person to whom paragraph (1), (3) , (3A) or (5) applies to produce ... the evidence or document, as the case may be, referred to in that paragraph.\n(7) A person who fails to produce that evidence or document when required to do so under paragraph (6) is guilty of an offence.\n(8) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(9) In this regulation “stopping officer” means an officer appointed under section 66B of the 1988 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(2) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 11(2) substituted for reg. 11(2)(2A) (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(3) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 11(3) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(4) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 11(3A) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(5) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 11(4) substituted (1.9.2008) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1965), regs. 1(1), 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4)(a) inserted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(6)(a)(i) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4)(a) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(6)(a)(ii) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4)(b) inserted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(6)(b)(i) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(4)(b) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(6)(b)(ii) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 11(5) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(7) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 11(5A)(5B) inserted (1.9.2008) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1965), regs. 1(1), 14(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(5A)(b) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(8) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(5B) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(9)(a) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(5B) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(9)(b) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Reg. 11(5C)(5D) inserted (30.3.2011) by The Road Vehicles (Powers to Stop) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/996), regs. 1, 12(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(6) inserted (22.7.2020) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/662), regs. 1, 2(10)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(6) omitted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(10) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Reg. 11(7) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(11) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(8) substituted (3.12.2024 except in so far as it relates to national return to driving courses, 1.2.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1160), regs. 1(2)(3), 16(12) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Reg. 11(9) inserted (30.3.2011) by The Road Vehicles (Powers to Stop) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/996), regs. 1, 12(2)(b)"
    }
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