
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
2 
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large (Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 shall he amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 
In regulations 3 (Application), in paragraph (2), after the words “except regulations 4,” there shall be inserted “5(2),”.
4 
In regulation 10 (Provisional licences and provision entitlement), for paragraphs (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—“
(4) A passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence issued as a provisional licence, including a licence which is treated as a provisional licence under section 98(2) and (3), shall be subject to the condition prescribed for the purposes of section 114(1) of the 1988 Act, that the holder shall not drive a passenger-carrying vehicle which he may drive by virtue of the licence while carrying any passenger in the vehicle other than—
(a) the person specified in paragraph (3)(a);
(b) a person specified in regulation 18(5); or
(c) a person who holds a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence or an existing public service vehicle licence and is giving or receiving instruction in the driving of passenger-carrying vehicles or who has given or received, or is to give or receive, such instruction.
(5) The condition specified in paragraph (3)(a) shall not apply whilst the holder of a provisional licence is undergoing a test; neither of the conditions specified in paragraph (3) nor the condition in paragraph (4) shall apply in relation to the driving of a vehicle of any category when the holder of the licence has passed a test for a vehicle of that category or whilst the holder of the licence is driving a vehicle he is entitled to drive by virtue of regulation 33(1) or 34(2) of the Motor Vehicles Driving Licences) Regulations 1987.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Christopher Chope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
7th March 1991