Decree No. 94 / 1972 Coll.
Decree of the Federal Ministry of Transport on training and further enhancing the expertise of road motor vehicle drivers
Valid
Effective from 01.01.1973
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DECLARATION
Federal Ministry of Transport
of 6 December 1972
on training and further enhancing the expertise of road motor vehicle drivers
The Federal Ministry of Transport, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Interior of the SSR and other participating central authorities, pursuant to Article 16 (1) (b) of Decree-Law No 54 / 1953 Coll., on road traffic, as amended by the legal measure of the Bureau of the National Assembly No 13 / 1956 Coll.:
Basic driver training
Authorisation to train drivers
(1) Training of drivers of road motor vehicles (hereinafter referred to as "motor vehicles") may be carried out to the extent and under the conditions laid down in this Decree:
(a) the driving schools of the Central Committee of the Association for Cooperation with the Army of the Czech Socialist Republic and the driving schools of the Central Committee of the Association for Cooperation with the Army of the Slovak Socialist Republic (hereinafter referred to as the "Svazarm Driving Schools"),
(b) secondary education schools (including vocational schools) and universities (hereinafter referred to as "schools");
(c) state and cooperative socialist organisations.
(2) Driver training shall be carried out by organisations authorised under paragraph 1 ("approved organisations") in their training facilities by course. Svazarm's motor schools can also teach theory in the form of long-distance studies.
(3) Agricultural and forestry schools of all grades and agricultural and forestry vocational training courses may be carried out by drivers for their pupils (apprentices), provided that this activity is included in their curriculum as a compulsory or optional subject or as a subject of interest; other schools referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 may train drivers for their pupils (apprentices) if this activity is included in their curriculum as a compulsory or optional subject. If the school cannot complete the driver training, it will provide practical training in the maintenance and management of motor vehicles at the Svanzarm driving school.
(4) The organisations referred to in paragraph 1 (c) may train drivers for their personnel to obtain a driving licence of Group A, B, C, M and T, *) only if it is necessary to ensure their tasks or the need for folk militia, civil defence or fire protection. Agricultural state organisations may also undertake training for cooperative agricultural organisations; for individual farmers, they provide training to obtain the licence of the T group. Organisations for which it would not be useful and economical to set up a course shall be associated with training in courses with other state or cooperative organisations.
(5) Driver training may also be carried out in emergency cases by individual training. * *)
Registration of the approved organisation
(1) Authorised organisations must be registered. The registration shall be carried out only if the conditions laid down in this Decree and the relevant curriculum of training for road motor vehicle drivers (hereinafter referred to as the curriculum), issued by the Federal Ministry of Transport in agreement with the participating central authorities, are fulfilled.
(2) The registration is carried out and issued by the District Transport Inspectorate of Public Security. The Public Security Regional Transport Inspectorate shall cancel the registration or, where appropriate, amend its scope if they are disposed of or change the conditions under which the registration was made. The Regional Transport Inspector of Public Security shall request a binding opinion of the relevant national committee before carrying out the registration, amendment or revocation.
(3) The application for authorisation shall specify:
(a) the name and address of the organisation, its superior authority and the central authority to which it belongs;
(b) the seat of the training establishment, the name, surname and address of the training establishment manager responsible;
(c) the purpose for which driver training is organised;
(d) the group of driving licences to be trained;
(e) the extent to which training is to be carried out;
(f) whether it is a one-time course or continuous training;
(g) the curriculum;
(h) the names of the teachers, indicating the subjects to which they are entitled to teach;
(ch) the address of the classroom where the theory and practical training in the maintenance of motor vehicles will be conducted, the list of teaching aids according to the curriculum and the list of training motor vehicles.
(4) The school shall submit to the registration application evidence that driver training is included in its curriculum as a compulsory or optional subject or will be carried out as part of an interest activity (Section 1 (3)).
(5) The approved organisation shall immediately notify the district public security inspector of any change concerning the information referred to in paragraph 3.
Scope and method of driver training
(1) Driver training consists of:
(a) teaching theory,
(b) practical training in the driving of motor vehicles, which is carried out on a trainer, a self-training centre and road traffic;
(c) practical maintenance training for motor vehicles;
(d) theoretical and practical training in the control of the foundations of the provision of first aid.
(2) Driver training shall be carried out within the scope and in a manner specified by the appropriate curriculum; This also applies to individual training. In the training of drivers in schools, the teaching theory shall be waived to the extent that the substance is taught in a professional subject. Applicants for a driving licence (hereinafter referred to as "applicants') who have completed an education in machinery, transport or agricultural mechanisation at vocational schools, secondary vocational schools or universities may not attend the teaching of the theory of the design and maintenance of motor vehicles.
(3) Driver training is usually conducted in bulk courses; not more than 35 applicants may be on one course.
(4) Under the conditions and to the extent set out in the curriculum, applicants in the Svanzarmu driving schools may study the theory remotely.
(5) Prior to the beginning of the course, the approved organisation shall submit a list of applicants to the Regional Public Security Transport Inspectorate. The District Transport Inspector of Public Security checks that applicants comply with the conditions laid down in this Decree. This also applies to teaching in the form of long-distance studies.
(6) Practical training in the driving of motor vehicles on the treadmill and on the self-training site must not be initiated before applicants are familiar with driving theory. Practical training in driving motor vehicles in road traffic shall not commence before applicants have acquired a basic knowledge of road traffic rules. In practical training in the driving of motor vehicles, the applicant shall be restrained by a safety belt, provided that the vehicle is equipped with it, also at the self-training site and when driving in municipalities 1)
(7) Teaching theory in courses and practical training in the maintenance and driving of motor vehicles is performed in hours after 45 minutes. A maximum of one training hour in practical driving of a motor vehicle may be completed daily by the applicant and, if the scope of such training is more than 12 teaching hours, by a maximum of two teaching hours with a break whose length is determined by the syllabus. The length of driving at one teaching hour shall be at least 20 km on average of the entire training, for tractors at least 10 km. When driving at a self-training centre (self-driving), the teacher may not be present in the training vehicle but may drive the training from the designated station.
(8) Practical motor vehicle maintenance training shall be conducted in groups of up to seven applicants.
Driver training teachers
(1) Teaching theory and practical training in the maintenance and management of motor vehicles may be undertaken only by persons (hereinafter referred to as "teachers") who:
(a) have at least a secondary vocational or full secondary general education;
(b) satisfy the conditions laid down in paragraphs 3 to 6;
(c) pass the examination successfully before the commission; the composition of the commission and the scope of the examination shall be determined by the examination procedure for teachers' examinations issued by the Federal Ministry of Interior.
(2) Persons who comply with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 shall issue a certificate to teachers from the Regional Transport Inspectorate of Public Security.
(3) The test schedule shall specify in which cases a psychological examination is required for the certification of teachers of practical training in motor vehicle driving.
(4) A certificate for the provision of road traffic regulations may only be granted to persons over 21 years of age who have the driving licence of the group to be taught; Certificate for the teaching of road traffic regulations to obtain the driving licence of the group However, persons with a category B, C, D or T driving licence may also be granted.
(5) A certificate for the teaching of motor vehicles and for practical maintenance training may be granted only to persons over 21 years of age who demonstrate the expertise provided for in the test rules.
(6) A certificate for practical training in the driving of motor vehicles may be given to drivers who are over 21 years of age and have not lost reliability in driving of motor vehicles in the last three years. 2) Certificate for practical training in the driving of motor vehicles may be granted for groups
(a) A and M to drivers entitled to drive category A motor vehicles for at least 2 years;
(b) drivers entitled to drive category B motor vehicles or more than 3 years;
(c) C drivers who are entitled to drive category C motor vehicles or more than 3 years old and who prove to be professional drivers or military drivers of lorries of at least one year;
(d) T drivers who have been entitled to drive category C or T motor vehicles for at least 2 years.
(7) The teacher's certificate shall indicate the subjects to which the teacher is entitled to teach. This certificate shall be issued and, where appropriate, extended for a period of five years. If the teacher asks for an extension of the certificate, he must be examined before the Commission [paragraph 1 (c)].
(8) The Regional Transport Inspectorate of Public Security shall withdraw the certificate for teachers if the teacher finds that the driving licence prescribed in paragraphs 4 and 6 has been revoked or does not guarantee proper driver training.
(9) The driver may only be a person over 25 who meets the conditions laid down in paragraph 6 (a) or (b); its competence to drive motor vehicles may be tested by the District Transport Inspectorate of Public Security.
Conditions for admission to driver training
(1) An applicant who:
(a) on the date of completion of the training, reaches the age prescribed for the granting of a driving licence for motor vehicles of the group concerned;
(b) be physically and mentally capable of driving motor vehicles;
(c) is reliable for driving motor vehicles. * *)
(2) Teachers in vocational training and studying at the schools referred to in § 1 (1) (b) may undergo training and driving tests before reaching the prescribed age; However, they shall be issued a driving licence with a restriction which provides that the driving licence is valid after the prescribed age.
Obligations of applicants for driving licences and responsible staff of training facilities
(1) The applicant is obliged to take part in driver training within the scope of the curriculum. The completed hours of practical training in the maintenance and control of motor vehicles shall be completed. The missed teaching hours of the theory must be completed if the applicant misses more than one quarter.
(2) The worker responsible for training drivers in an approved organisation shall be responsible for the proper, planned and continuous training of drivers in accordance with the curriculum and its professional standards and shall ensure that each applicant is called for a driving test without delay after successful completion of the training.
(3) Teachers are required to follow the prescribed curriculum. Before the end of driver training, it shall be satisfied that applicants are properly prepared to pass the prescribed driving test and that they control the practical provision of first aid within the scope of the medical part of the basic standard of knowledge. * * *) If they find that the applicant is not sufficiently prepared, they shall determine additional training. If, even after additional training, the applicant is not eligible for a driving licence, the worker responsible for training the drivers in the approved organisation shall invite him to undergo a transport psychological examination; *) further training may be continued only if the transport psychological examination has a positive result.
Training motor vehicles
(1) A motor vehicle on which practical driving training is carried out shall be equipped with a device enabling safe driving during training (in particular dual coupling and service brake control devices, other rear-view mirrors, double steering in the case of a motorcycle, teacher seat next to or behind the applicant's seat). A motor vehicle on which practical training in the driving of category C motor vehicles is carried out shall have a useful mass of not less than 4,5 tonnes. Motorcycles with a cylinder capacity of not more than 50 cm3 and scooters need not have dual coupling and service brakes and dual steering devices. In practical driving training, only commercial motor vehicles in socialist ownership may be used, except for paragraphs 7 and 8. The competence of the training vehicle shall be approved by the District Transport Inspector of Public Security.
(2) The training vehicle (other than a motorcycle) must bear on the sides the designation "Driving School" with the name and address of the approved organisation, made in a colour clearly different from that of the bodywork of the motor vehicle. The table in the form of a rectangle of not less than 20 cm in height and not less than 90% of the width of the roof of the vehicle marked "Driving school 'in black letters on the yellow ground shall also be placed on the vehicle roof, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of symmetry of the vehicle; buses and lorries shall bear the designation" Driving School' also on the rear of the vehicle. When driving a motorcycle, the applicant shall have a removable marking on the breast and the teacher on the back in the form of an equilateral triangle built on a 30 cm side-length base with a red edge of 3 cm wide; the inside of the triangle is white with a black inscription "Practice Ride."
(3) Practical driving training is not permitted on motor vehicles to carry out fire protection, medical and mining rescue services, which have the right of priority driving. * *)
(4) In practical driving training, there shall be no uninvolved or dangerous costs on the vehicle.
(5) The training motor vehicle must always be in proper technical condition.
(6) Those who are registered as the holder of the training vehicle's technical licence shall be obliged to show up with the vehicle once every 6 months for a roadworthiness check3).
(7) Individual training of motor vehicle drivers may also be carried out on motor vehicles which do not comply with the requirements of paragraphs 1, 2 and 6; the competence of the training vehicle must be approved by the District Transport Inspectorate of Public Safety. The vehicle shall be marked on the bodywork perpendicular to the front of the road on the left and the rear of the centre or on the left of the equilateral triangle with rounded vertices on the base of 25 cm long, with a red edge of 2 cm wide; the interior of the triangle is white, with the black inscription "Training Ride."
(8) Practical training in driving motor vehicles for disabled persons shall be carried out on vehicles adapted to the applicant's physical conditions. The vehicle need not comply with the conditions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 6, but the competence of the training vehicle must be approved by the District Transport Inspectorate of Public Security. The vehicle shall be marked as specified in the second sentence of paragraph 7.
Apprenticeship aids
(1) In order to train drivers, textbooks, manuals, pictures, films, training chairs, trainers and test and teaching machines may be used only if they are approved by the Central Authority of the Czech Socialist Republic for Transport or the Central Authority of the Slovak Socialist Republic for Transport (the "Central Authority of the Republic"); the textbooks used to train drivers in schools must also be approved by the Republic Ministry of Education, the textbooks used in the training of the goalders also by the Federal Ministry of National Defence.
(2) Authorised organisations are required to complement teaching tools to match current technical developments and vehicles newly introduced into road traffic. The basic equipment of the training equipment shall be determined by the curriculum.
Increasing driver competence
Mandatory training for professional drivers
(1) Regular compulsory training for professional drivers is carried out by an organisation with which the driver is employed or, where appropriate, by a cooperative organisation of which he is a member, in the competitive (cooperative) employment schools; organisations may also be associated with the joint implementation of compulsory training if the organisation of separate compulsory training would not be economical to them.
(2) The organisations referred to in paragraph 1 may agree, where appropriate and economical, to conduct compulsory training with organisations authorised to train drivers (§ 1 (1)) or with other organisations carrying out compulsory training of professional drivers as an economic activity on the basis of an instrument of establishment, statute or statutes or other organisational measure. *)
(3) Compulsory training shall be carried out at least 32 hours a year and shall be completed by a mandatory roadworthiness test provided by the organisation. The period of compulsory instruction and checking shall be counted against the working time of the driver and shall be subject to the salary in accordance with the wage rules issued by the competent central authorities. The unexcused absence of the driver's participation in compulsory instruction or checking shall be considered an unexcused delay in working time.
(4) A maximum of 40 drivers may attend one compulsory training course.
(5) The organisation shall keep an accurate record of the mandatory instruction and checking and notify the district public safety inspector of the drivers who have not benefited from the examination. * *)
(6) Drivers who have missed more than 6 hours of mandatory instruction during the year shall be required to attend the replacement instruction on the missing substance, including, where appropriate, another organisation.
Thematic compulsory training plan
(1) The thematic training plan is issued by the central authority of the Republic.
(2) The organisation will complement the thematic plan of compulsory instruction with problems of its own operation. If the organisation itself does not carry out compulsory training and checking, it shall submit the completed curriculum to the organisation which carries out compulsory training and checking.
Teachers of compulsory education
The compulsory instruction of professional drivers on road traffic rules and on the teaching and maintenance of motor vehicles is carried out by teachers within the scope of their certificate (Section 4). Professional lectures related to topics may also be carried out by professional external staff not certified for teachers.
Payment of costs
The costs of compulsory training undertaken jointly for drivers of several organisations shall be borne by those organisations in proportion to the number of drivers who participated in the compulsory training.
Enhancing the competence of other drivers
Svanzarmu, Svanzarmu Automotive Clubs and other organisations whose activity is to educate drivers may organise and conduct voluntary training of other drivers according to a thematic plan issued by the Central Authority of the Republic.
Transitional and final provisions
Supervision
The Central Authority of the Republic, together with the national committees, shall supervise:
(a) equipment for training facilities, the level and manner of training of drivers;
(b) the organisation and conduct of compulsory training and checking of professional drivers and voluntary training of other drivers.
Transitional provisions
(1) The consent to conduct driver training, granted by the District Transport Inspectorate of Public Security under the existing regulations, authorises the organisation to conduct driver training under this Decree within six months of its effective date.
(2) Teachers' certificates issued under the current regulations shall be deemed to have been issued under this Order.
Exceptions
(1) The central authority of the Republic may, on a case-by-case basis, authorise an exemption from this decree.
(2) This decree does not apply to training of drivers of the armed forces and armed corps.
(3) Specific regulations apply to the training of drivers of transport and forklifts, trams and trolleybuses. *)
Repeal
Decree No. 53 / 1965 Coll., on training and further improving the expertise of road motor vehicle drivers, is hereby repealed.
Efficacy
This Decree shall take effect on 1 January 1973.
Minister:
Dr Ing. Shutka v. r.
*) § 2 of Decree No. 87 / 1964 Coll., on driving licences.
* *) § 8 (3) of Decree No. 87 / 1964 Coll.
*) § 3 (5) of Decree No. 80 / 1966 Coll., on road traffic rules.
*) § 7 (1) of Decree No. 87 / 1964 Coll.
* *) § 5 to 7 of Decree No. 87 / 1964 Coll. as amended by Decree No. 3 / 1972 Coll.
* * *) "The medical part of the basic standard and the technical standard of knowledge and their content definition for the health units of the ÚS CO Municipality, the ČČK (SČK) health patrol in cities and at plants and health patrols of lower and middle-type objects" issued by the Federal Ministry of Interior in 1971.
*) Transport psychological examination is carried out in the psychological laboratories mentioned in the curriculum.
* *) § 27 of Decree No. 80 / 1966 Coll.
*) § 18a of the Economic Code.
* *) § 13 of Decree No. 87 / 1964 Coll.
*) ČSN 26 88 00. Regulations of the Ministry of Transport on the training of drivers of urban railway vehicles and the issue of licences for such drivers - Ok 10, No 18 074 / 68-10.
1) Paragraph 5 (2) of Decree No. 100 / 1975 Coll., on road traffic rules.
2) Paragraph 7 (1) of Decree No 87 / 1964 Coll., on driving licences.
3) Paragraph 83 of Decree No 145 / 1956 of Ú. l (Ú. v.) on road traffic.
4) Paragraph 14 is without prejudice to the competence of the Transport Inspectors of Public Security pursuant to Articles 4 and 5 of Decree No 145 / 1956 of the Úl (Ú. v.).
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Federal Ministry of Transport No 94 / 1972 Coll., on training and further improving the expertise of road motor vehicle drivers |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 14.12.1972 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1973 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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