
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1989.
2 
Paragraph (2) of regulation 24 (Disabilities) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 shall be amended as follows–
(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “to have effect” there shall be substituted the word “granted”; and
(b) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–“
(b) in the case of an applicant who has had an epileptic attack or attacks only whilst asleep during that period–
(i) he shall have had an epileptic attack whilst asleep more than three years before the date the licence is granted; and
(ii) he shall have had no epileptic attack or attacks whilst awake but only whilst asleep since he had that attack; and”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
8th March 1989