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Amending law on road traffic law 1994, etc. (introduction driving licence agricultural and forestry tractors and limited-speed motor vehicles (T driving licence))

Original Language Title: Wijzigingswet Wegenverkeerswet 1994, enz. (invoering rijbewijsplicht landbouw- en bosbouwtrekkers en motorrijtuigen met beperkte snelheid (T-rijbewijs))

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Act of 3 December 2014 amending the Road Traffic Act 1994 and the Motor Vehicle Driving Law 1993 in connection with the introduction of the driving licence for agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with reduced speed (T driving licence)

We Willem-Alexander, at the grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc.

All of them, who will see or hear these, saluut! do know:

In this regard, we have taken the view that it is desirable that there should be a driving obligation for the driving of agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with a limited speed;

It is true that we, the Department of Consultative Affairs of the Council of State, and with the mean consultations of the States-General, have found and understand the same as We approve and understand:


Article I

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Article II

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Article III

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Applications for the issue of land Article 20, first paragraph, of the Working Conditions Act Certificate of competence to be issued, intended to be issued in accordance with Article 9.36 of the Working Conditions Act as that article was earlier than the day preceding the date of entry into force of that Article. Article I they are dealt with before that date in accordance with the provisions which until that date were applied for the issue of that certificate.


Article IV

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  • 2 During the period referred to in paragraph 1, for holders of the certificate referred to in the first paragraph, Article 107, first paragraph, of the Road Traffic Act 1994 Not applicable for the management of agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with reduced speed, designated by general measure.

  • 3 To no later than one year after the date of entry into force of Article I of this Law shall be issued, on request and on payment of the rate fixed in accordance with general rules of management, on holders of the certificate referred to in paragraph 1 and subject to a licence valid for that purpose. For the control of agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with reduced speed, designated by general management.


Article V

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  • 1 Persons to whom before the date of entry into force of Article I This law has issued a driving licence for category B, or in respect of whom the decision to issue a licence for category B has been taken for that time, are also competent to govern the general measure of Designated agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with a reduced rate of speed up to 10 years from the date of entry into force of Article I of this Act, or until a new or replacement licence is issued for the category B issued within the specified 10-year period.

  • 2 To 10 years after the date of entry into force of Article I of this Law shall be lost to holders of a licence for the category B which is still valid or have lost its validity by the expiry of the period of validity upon application and against payment of the relevant rate in accordance with the conditions laid down in that Regulation. A licence issued by a general provision of management issued a licence which is also valid for the driving of agricultural and forestry tractors and motor vehicles with reduced speed, designated by a general measure of management.

  • 3 The first and second paragraphs shall not apply to holders of a driving licence B who have obtained that licence on or after their seventeenth birthday, but before their eighteenth birthday, during the period which they only receive under guidance Driving licence category B may be allowed to drive.

  • For the purposes of application of the first to third members, the term 'driving licence' means a valid licence for category B issued by the competent authority in another Member State of the European Union or a State which is a party to the application of the Agreement on the European Economic Area or in Switzerland, the proprietor of which is resident in the Netherlands.


Article VI

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  • 2 For a period of two years from the date of entry into force of Article II of this law Article 7, fifth paragraph, of the Motor Vehicle Driving Law 1993 Not applicable to:

    • a. Persons at the time of entry into force of Article II they are employed by an agricultural education institution in the school year preceding that date and are in possession of a ministerial pass established by ministerial arrangement;

    • b. Persons at the time of entry into force of Article II This law has a ministerial arrangement designated by the Foundation for the Promotion of Reversing Seducation (Foundation).


Article VII

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  • 1 On the first claim of the Article 159 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 Persons referred to as the driver of an agricultural or forestry tractor or a motor vehicle with a reduced speed are obliged to stop the motor vehicle, as well as to the Article IV, first paragraph (i) give a proper access to the certificate of competence referred to in this Act.

  • 3 Infringement of the first and second paragraphs shall be punished as a violation with custody of a maximum of two months or a fine of the second category.


Article VIIa

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Within two years of the entry into force of this Act, our Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment shall send to the States General a report on the effectiveness and effects of this law in practice.


Article VIII

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This Law shall enter into force on a date to be determined by Royal Decree, which may be adopted in a different way for the various articles or parts of such articles.

Burdens and orders that it will be placed in the Official Gazette and that all ministries, authorities, colleges and public servants who so far as to do so will keep their hands on the precise execution.

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Wassenaar, 3 December 2014

William-Alexander

The Minister for Infrastructure and the Environment,

M.H. Schultz van Haegen-Maas Geesteranus

Issued the fifteenth of January 2015

The Minister for Security and Justice,

I. W. Opstelten