The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment)(No. 2) Regulations 1994

Made: 12th July 1994

Laid before Parliament: 15th July 1994

Coming into force: 5th August 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 92(2), 105(1) and (3), and 108(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00001], and after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 5th August 1994.

2

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987[^f00002]shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

3

• (1) In regulation 24(d) (Disabilities), in paragraph (2), for the words from “the conditions that” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted—

the following conditions, namely that he shall— (a) Lhave been free from any epileptic attack during the period of one year immediately preceding the date when the licence is granted; or (b) have had an epileptic attack whilst asleep more than three years before the date when the licence is granted and shall have had attacks only whilst asleep between the date of that attack and the date when the licence is granted; and that the driving of a vehicle by him in accordance with the licence is not likely to be a danger to the public.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 12th July 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend (with minor drafting alterations) regulation 24(2) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987. They alter the conditions which a person suffering from epilepsy has to satisfy if he is to be granted a driving licence. The principal change is that the period during which he must have been free from attacks whilst awake is reduced from two years to one year. As a consequence the provisions as to persons with a history of sleep attacks are slightly affected. A person who last had a sleep attack between one and two years before the granting of the licence now falls within paragraph (a) of regulation 24(2) rather than paragraph (b).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 52.