{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-drivers-certificates-of-professional-competence-regulations-2007/regulation-8AA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-drivers-certificates-of-professional-competence-regulations-2007/regulation-8AA.json",
  "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/8AA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8AA",
  "heading": "Application for driver qualification card",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person other than a person to whom regulation 8A applies who—\n(a) has passed the initial CPC test in accordance with regulation 5,\n(b) is a qualifying licence holder, has completed the required training and falls within regulation 6(14), or\n(c) is a qualifying licence holder, has completed a national return to driving course, and—\n(i) has completed 28 hours of periodic training or Swiss periodic training in accordance with regulation 7B(6), or\n(ii) has completed a combination of 28 hours of any periodic training and any Swiss periodic training in accordance with regulation 7B(6).\n(2) To obtain a driver qualification card, a person to whom this regulation applies must—\n(a) make an application to the competent authority, and\n(b) pay the application fee of £25.\n(3) The application must include—\n(a) if requested by the competent authority, a photograph of the applicant;\n(b) in the case of an application by a person referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c), such documents or information—\n(i) relating to any training which has not been notified to the competent authority under regulation 7(1), and\n(ii) which the competent authority may require.\n(4) The competent authority may waive the fee specified in paragraph (2)(b) in whole or in part if it thinks fit.\n(5) On receipt of the application and the payment of any fee, the competent authority must issue a driver qualification card to a person to whom this regulation applies for a period of five years beginning with—\n(a) the relevant day if it is satisfied that—\n(i) the person holds an initial CPC as a result of passing the initial CPC test in accordance with regulation 5, or\n(ii) the person holds a periodic CPC as a result of completing the required training and it has been notified of any training completed by the person which falls within regulation 7(1), or\n(b) the day on which the person completed the national return to driving course if it is satisfied that—\n(i) the person holds a periodic CPC as a result of completing the training referred to in paragraph (1)(c), and\n(ii) it has been notified of any training completed by the person which falls within regulation 7(1).\n(6) In this regulation—\n“qualifying licence holder” means a person who holds—\n(a)a Community licence,\n(b)a British external licence,\n(c)a Gibraltar licence,\n(d)a Swiss licence, or\n(e)a driving licence where some of the person’s periodic training has not been notified to the competent authority under regulation 7(1);\n“required training” means 35 hours of—\n(a)periodic training where at least 7 hours of that training is periodic training undertaken in the United Kingdom,\n(b)Swiss periodic training, or\n(c)a combination of any periodic training and any Swiss periodic training.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 8-8AD substituted for regs. 8, 8A (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), 12 (with reg. 26)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/605/regulation/8AA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:00:40.735640+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."
}