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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2025 No. 1085
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences)
(Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 14th October 2025
Laid before Parliament 16th October 2025
Coming into force - - 7th November 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 92(4)
(b) and 105(1), (2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1).
Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 7th November 2025.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.
Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999
2. In the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999(2), in regulation 73 (disabilities
prescribed in respect of Group 2 licences)—
(a) in paragraph (6B)(a), for “blood glucose monitoring” substitute “appropriate monitoring
to assess glucose levels and any risk of hypoglycaemia”;
(b) in paragraph (6C)(b), for the words from “a device” to “blood” substitute “an appropriate
device that measures and records”.
(1) 1988 c. 52; section 105(2)(a) was substituted by S.I. 1996/1974, regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 17(a); there are other
amending instruments to section 105(2) but none is relevant.
(2) S.I. 1999/2864, amended by S.I. 2011/2516; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.Document Generated: 2025-11-18
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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
14th October 2025 Department for Transport
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2864)
to allow holders of Group 2 licences (bus and lorry drivers) to use any appropriate glucose monitoring
system, by removing the requirement for blood testing.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant impact on
the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum has been published
alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.
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