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The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

25 November 2020

Title:  The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
 
Amends/Commences:  The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007
 
Comes into force: 26th of May 2020  
 
Jurisdiction: United Kingdom 
 
The following are added to the list of vehicles which are exempt from the requirement for drivers to hold an initial CPC:

  • NHS ambulance service vehicles;

  • vehicles used for non commercial transport of humanitarian aid;

  • vehicles being driven in the course of additional driver training to enable the person to gain a CPC or licence;

  • vehicles carrying goods or passengers for non-commercial; and

  • vehicles driven by a person for an agricultural, horticultural, forestry, farming or fishery business.

 
CPC and associated periodic training completed in Switzerland are recognised in the UK. A driver carrying evidence of these is not required to hold UK documentation. 
 
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