He has been pulling this vehicle round for nine months on a provisional licence.
But he could have been carrying passengers for years, perhaps even on a provisional licence.
The essential safeguard is that the holder of a provisional licence must always be accompanied by a qualified driver.
In place of the peacetime provisions there was introduced a provisional licence for periods of 12 months.
That is what the law considers to be necessary to secure road safety in the case of the provisional licence holder.
But it is not the surrender which matters and which makes driving, except on a provisional licence, invalid.
We are looking at the size of machine that can be driven by a provisional licence holder.
There is much support for setting a limit on the duration of a provisional licence without test or training.
