Compulsory health checks of drivers aged 65

The amendment to Act No. 361/2000 Coll., as amended, about road traffic, which brings change related to compulsory health checks for non-professional drivers, will be effective from 1.7.2013.

So far drivers had to undergo a health checks already at the age of 60 years. Newly the age limit will be increased for the first health check for the age of 65. The license holder is obliged to undergo the regular health check not earlier than six months before the age of 65 and 68 years and no later than at the age reached; every two years after reaching 68 years. The amendment also defines a change in the payment of mandatory driving-psychological check of professional drivers or a change relating to running of the occasional passenger’s road transport.