Change the conditions of vehicles for practice driving from November 01, 2022

On September 27, 2022, the Government issues Decree No. 70/2022/ND-CP on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Decrees regulating commercial road activities

In particulars, Decree 70/2022 amends and supplements Point a, Clause 6, Decree No. 65/2016/ND-CP stipulating conditions for the provision of driver training services and driving test services  as follows:

- Having vehicles of all classes for practice driving under the lawful use right of the driver training establishment;

- Being licensed by a competent agency to practice driving;

- In case the training establishment provides the driving test service, based on the time of using the test vehicles for the purpose of the test, it is allowed to use the test vehicles to both conduct the driving test and train drivers but the number of test vehicles used to calculate training traffic must not exceed 50% of the number of test vehicles used for driving lessons.
 

Besides, Decree 70/2022 annuls the regulations as follows:

- Learner driver cars may be totally owned by the driver training institution.

- hired under one-year contracts or longer but the number of hired cars shall not exceed 50% of that of possessed cars for respective driving license categories (for B1, B2, C, D and E ).

- Learner driver cars for FC classes may be hired under fixed-term contracts at the adequate quantity to meet the need for driver training.  Learner driver cars with automatic gearboxes for B1 and B2 classes may be totally hired under contracts.

This Circular takes effect on November 01, 2022.