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2017 No. 1208

Road Traffic

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

5th December 2017

Laid before Parliament

7th December 2017

Coming into force

1st January 2018

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 92(2) and (4)(b), and 105(1), (2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988( 1 ), and after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2)( 2 ) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st January 2018.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

2. —(1)The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999( 3 ) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 72 (disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 1 licences)—

(a) for paragraph (4)(a) substitute—

“ (a) has experienced two or more episodes of severe hypoglycaemia while awake during the previous one year period, and the most recent episode occurred during the previous three month period; or ” ;

(b) for paragraph (5)(a) substitute—

“ (a) does not fall within paragraph (4)(a); ” ;

(c) for paragraph (6)(b) substitute—

“ (b) undertakes appropriate monitoring to assess glucose levels and any risk of hypoglycaemia; ” .

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Jesse Norman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

5th December 2017

( 1 )

1988 c.52 . See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” in section 108.

( 2 )

Section 195(2) was amended by the Road Safety Act 2006, sections 42 and 59, Schedule 6 (paragraphs 1 and 30) and Schedule 7 (paragraph 14). At the date of these Regulations being made, these provisions are yet to be commenced in respect of this amendment.

( 3 )

S.I. 1999/2864 . Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2011/2516 and 2013/258 .

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