Q Part of my duties is to give driving instruction
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to learner drivers preparing for their heavy goods vehicle driving test. /am not registered as a driving instructor with the DoE and I am concerned that I might be committing an offence under the Road Traffic (Driving Instructors) Act 1967. What is my position?
A The Road Traffic (Driving Instruction) Act 1967 was repealed by the Road Traffic Act 1972, Part V of that Act now deals with the giving of driving instruction. Section 126 of the Act states that "no instruction, for the giving of which money of money's worth is, or is to be, made by, or in respect of, the person to whom the instruction is given, shall be given in the d a motorcar unless the narr person giving the instructior register of approved instruc As your pupils are not p their instruction, nor is any paying specifically on thei you do not need to be registc instructor with the Departm Environment.