Section 34, The Road Traffic Act, 2007

(1) A person seeking to operate as an instructor in thedriving of motor vehicles shall apply in the prescribed form to the Licensing Authority. (2) The Licensing Authority shall issue the applicant with a certificate on the payment by the applicant of the prescribed fee. (3) The Licensing Authority shall record in a register to be known as the Register of Driving Instructors the names of driving instructors registered under this Act. (4) Before the requisite entry is made in the register, the applicant shall satisfy the Licensing Authority that he- (a) has passed the prescribed examination of ability to give instruction in the driving of motor vehicles; (b) is the holder of a valid licence which authorizes him to drive a motor vehicle under this Act; Obtaining licence or driving while disqualified. Driving schools to be registered. Driving instructors. Application for registration as instructor. 20 21 (c) has not, during any part of the period of four years ending with the day on which the application is made, been disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence to drive a motor vehicle; and (d) is a fit and proper person to have his name entered in the register. (5) At any time when a person who held a valid learner’s permit to drive a motor vehicle granted under this Act, passes the test of competence to drive a motor vehicle prescribed by this Act, he shall be regarded as holding the valid licence mentioned n paragraph (b) of subsection (4). (6) The entry of a person’s name in the register is subject to the condition that, so long as the person’s name is in the register, he will, if at any time required to do so by the Licensing Authority, undergo the test prescribed for continued ability and fitness to give instruction in the driving of motor vehicles. (7) Regulations may provide that persons of such class as may be specified in the regulations shall be exempted from the condition mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (4) as regards the whole or such part of the examination mentioned in that paragraph as may be so specified. (8) The Licensing Authority shall, on making a decision on an application under subsection (4), give notice in writing of the decision to the applicant which, in the case of a decision to refuse the applicant, shall state the grounds of the refusal.