The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 implement the minimum standards of medical fitness required for diabetes mellitus, as specified in Directive 2009/112/EC of 25 August 2009 and Directive 2009/113/EC of the same date. They amend the medical standards applicable for driver licensing of applicants and licence holders with diabetes, set out in the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999. They also amend the terms in which diabetes is prescribed as a relevant disability for the purposes of section 92(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, so that a person with diabetes cannot be granted a licence; and for the purposes of section 92(4)(b) of that Act, by which an applicant can be granted a conditional licence.