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Rules for using the road, including general rules, overtaking, road junctions, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings and reversing.

• Updated: 29 January 2022

A diagram that explained the reversing exercise you needed to do during a car and trailer driving test.

• Updated: 10 September 2021

If your car or other vehicle has seat belts you must use them, with only a few exceptions

• Overview

  You must wear a seat belt if one is fitted in the seat you’re using -…

• When you do not need to wear a seat belt

  You do not need to wear a seat belt if you’re: a driver who is reversing,…

• If your vehicle does not have seat belts

  If your vehicle does not have seat belts, for example it’s a classic car,…

What driving instructors should do to carry out realistic mock driving tests, including what needs to be in the test, assessing faults and recording the result.

• Updated: 22 June 2022

Outdated funding formulas that penalised deprived areas for decades are being scrapped, so local people finally get the vital public services they deserve.

• Updated: 20 November 2025

Guidance for businesses on the marking of measuring container bottles, with lists of approved and inactive manufacturers’ marks.

• Updated: 19 June 2025

Paper presented at International Forum on Road Safety Research, Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, October 1995.

• Updated: 1 January 1995

This form is for public companies to re-register as a private limited company.

• Updated: 1 January 1994

Closed: REDAA invited proposals by 30 June 2024 for locally-led, multi-locational, applied research and research-to-action restoration programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

• Updated: 13 May 2024