Road Traffic (Licensing of Learner Drivers) Regulations, 2007

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 719/2007
• Year: 2007

S.I. No. 719 of 2007

ROAD TRAFFIC (LICENSING OF LEARNER DRIVERS) REGULATIONS 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 30th October, 2007.

I, NOEL DEMPSEY, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and the National Roads and Road Traffic (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 298 of 2002 ) (as adapted by the Public Enterprise (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 305 of 2002 )) and in so far as the following regulations relate to driving licence codes, section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 2006 (No. 23 of 2006) giving further effect to Council Directive 97/26/EC of 2 June 1997 1 , hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Licensing of Learner Drivers) Regulations 2007.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into operation on 30 October 2007.

(3) Paragraphs (a), (b)(ii) and (c) of Regulation 2 come into operation on 1 December 2007.

2. The Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 537 of 2006 ) are amended—

(a) in Regulation 15(2), by substituting “€10” for “€5”,

(b) in Regulation 17(6)—

(i) by substituting for subparagraph (a) the following:

“(a) In this paragraph ‘qualified person’ means a person who holds a driving licence which has been held by him or her without disqualification for a continuous period of 2 years in respect of the vehicle category being driven, and which licence, unless the vehicle being driven has automatic transmission, does not have code 78 denoted on it.”,

(ii) in subparagraph (b), by substituting for clause (iii) the following:

“(iii) vehicles of—

(I) category B, C1, C, D1, D, EB, EC1, EC, ED1, or ED, shall not drive such a vehicle unless there are displayed on the vehicle rectangular plates or signs bearing the letter ‘L’, not less than 15 centimetres high in red on a white ground, in clearly visible vertical positions to the front and rear of the vehicle, or

(II) category A, A1, or M, shall not drive such a vehicle unless there are displayed on a yellow fluorescent tabard worn over the person’s outside clothing, the letter ‘L’, not less than 15 centimetres high in red on a white ground, in clearly visible vertical positions to the front and rear of the person’s torso,”,

(iii) by substituting for paragraph (c) the following:

“(c) The condition set out in subparagraph (b)(iv) does not apply—

(i) where the holder of the licence is driving a vehicle in the course of undergoing a driving test or where code 73 is indicated on the licence, while he or she is driving a vehicle of any of those categories, or

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