The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007

• (4) The competent authority may waive the fee specified in paragraph (2)(b) in whole or in part if it thinks fit.

• (5) On receipt of the application and the payment of any fee, the competent authority must issue a national driver qualification card to a person to whom this regulation applies for a period of five years beginning with—

• (a) the relevant day if it is satisfied that—

• (i) the person holds a national periodic CPC as a result of completing the required training, and

• (ii) it has been notified of any training completed by the person which falls within regulation 7(1), or

• (b) the day on which the person completed the national return to driving course if it is satisfied that—

• (i) the person holds a national periodic CPC as a result of completing the training referred to in paragraph (1)(b), and

• (ii) it has been notified of any training completed by the person which falls within regulation 7(1).

• (6) On receipt of the application and the payment of any fee, the competent authority must issue a national driver qualification card to a person to whom this regulation applies for a period of one year beginning with the day on which the person completed the national return to driving course if it is satisfied that—

• (a) the person has completed the course, and

• (b) the completion of that course has been notified to the competent authority under regulation 7(1).

• (7) In this regulation—

• “combined training” means training which is—a combination of any national periodic training and any periodic training,a combination of any national periodic training and any Swiss periodic training, ora combination of any national periodic training, any periodic training and any Swiss periodic training;

• “qualifying licence holder” means a person who holds—a Community licence,a British external licence,a Gibraltar licence,a Swiss licence, ora driving licence where some of the person’s periodic training has not been notified to the competent authority under regulation 7(1);

• “required training” means 35 hours of—national periodic training, orcombined training.

Damaged, lost or stolen documents

Requirement to hold, validity and time limits of CPC, national periodic CPC or Swiss CPC

Offence of driving without a CPC

Requirement to carry and produce evidence of CPC or of training exemption in vehicle

Document errors

Forgery and false statements

Power to seize document in respect of which offences may have been committed

Review

Amendment of the Driving Licences Regulations