Loophole allowing suspended driving instructors to continue teaching is closed
The Driving Instruction Act 2009 will soon be coming into force. This new piece of legislation is designed to close a loophole which allows driving instructors who have been suspended to continue giving lessons for 45 days, until they are formally removed from the register of Advanced Driving Instructors.
Under current regulations, even if a Driving Instructor has been found guilty of a driving offence, or has failed to maintain the high standards expected of them, it will take up to 45 days to remove them from the ADI register. This delay means that in a few exceptional cases, someone who might pose a danger to other road users can continue teaching learner drivers for those 45 days.
The closure of this loophole is down to the efforts of MP Willie Rennie, who introduced the new law as a Private Member’s Bill. Mr Rennie’s Bill was supported by the Department for Transport and the Driving Standards Agency. Speaking about the passage of his Private Members Bill, Mr Rennie said:
“It will send a strong message to those driving instructors who are guilty of an offence and present a danger to the public that they will no longer be able to carry on as normal. This will improve the safety of learner drivers and will also offer support to the vast majority of instructors who conduct themselves quite properly in carrying out the valuable role of teaching young people to drive.”
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Safety has to be paramount for learner drivers and closing this loop-hole may well save quite a few learners from actually
placing their lives in the hands of unqualified people.