Terms and Conditions
Manual driving tuition in Halifax and surrounding areas
Version: 1.0
Effective date: 3 September 2026
BUSINESS AND CONTACT DETAILS
Operator: Richard Tidswell, trading as RPT Driver Training
Address: 3 Copley Close, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 0TR
Telephone: 07894 810675
Email: rptdrivertraining@outlook.com
Website: https://www.rptdrivertraining.co.uk/
These Terms and Conditions explain how lessons are booked and provided, what RPT Driver Training and its pupils can expect from each other, and how cancellations, payments and practical-test bookings are handled. They are intended to support safe, professional and fair driving tuition.
-
About these terms
RPT Driver Training is operated by Richard Tidswell.
In these terms, “RPT”, “we” and “us” mean RPT Driver Training, and “you” means the pupil receiving tuition.
If a parent, guardian or another person books or pays for lessons, they must also read and accept the terms relating to booking and payment.
You should receive these terms before your first booking is confirmed. Please ask about anything you do not understand before accepting them.
-
Lessons, prices and bookings
RPT provides manual, one-to-one driving tuition.
The lesson length, price, meeting place and payment arrangements will be confirmed when the lesson is booked.
The current public price is shown at:
https://www.rptdrivertraining.co.uk/prices/
The price confirmed for a booking will apply to that booking. Any future price change will be communicated before it applies.
A booking is not confirmed until RPT has accepted it. Regular lesson times are not guaranteed indefinitely and may need to be changed by agreement.
-
Driving licence requirements
You must hold the appropriate valid driving licence for the training being provided.
You must tell RPT immediately if your licence is lost, revoked, suspended, expired or otherwise becomes invalid.
• Learner drivers must hold a valid Great Britain or Northern Ireland provisional Category B driving licence.
• Full licence holders undertaking refresher or post-test training must hold the appropriate valid full Category B licence.
• A learner driver may receive motorway tuition in Great Britain when accompanied by an approved driving instructor in a vehicle fitted with dual controls.
• To use the tuition vehicle for a practical driving test, you must hold the licence and documentation required by the DVSA.
RPT may ask to inspect your driving licence and may carry out an online licence check with your permission where appropriate.
-
Eyesight, health and fitness to drive
You must meet the legal eyesight standard and wear any glasses or contact lenses needed to meet that standard whenever you drive.
You must tell RPT promptly about any medical condition, injury, medication or change in circumstances that could affect your ability or legal entitlement to drive.
You remain responsible for obtaining medical advice and notifying the DVLA where required.
You must not attend a lesson under the influence of alcohol, illegal drugs, misused medication or any other substance that may impair safe driving.
If RPT reasonably believes you are unfit to drive safely, the lesson may be ended and may be charged in accordance with the cancellation provisions below.
Seat belts must be worn unless a lawful medical exemption applies. Please tell RPT about an exemption before the lesson begins.
-
Contracts agreed at a distance
If you agree a contract by telephone, text message, WhatsApp, email or online, you may normally have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days of the contract being made, subject to the applicable consumer-contract rules.
If you ask RPT to provide a lesson during that 14-day period, you expressly request that the service begins before the cancellation period has ended.
If you then exercise a legal right to cancel, you must pay for lessons already supplied and any other amount permitted by law.
Once the service has been fully performed following the required request and acknowledgement, the cancellation right may end.
These statutory cancellation rights are separate from the 24-hour lesson cancellation policy in section 7.
-
Payments and prepaid lessons
Lessons must be paid for in advance or at the start of the lesson unless another arrangement has been agreed.
Payment may be made by bank transfer or cash. RPT may refuse to begin a lesson if payment has not been made as agreed.
Prepaid lesson credit is personal to the pupil and cannot be transferred without RPT’s agreement.
Any expiry date or special condition must be clearly stated before payment. If no expiry date is stated, no expiry date applies.
Where a discounted block price is offered, any rule about recalculating lessons already used at the standard rate must be explained before payment.
-
Pupil cancellations and rearrangements
At least 24 hours’ notice is required to cancel or rearrange a lesson.
Notice should be given by telephone call, text message or WhatsApp and must be acknowledged by RPT.
If less than 24 hours’ notice is provided, you may be charged up to the full lesson fee where the appointment cannot reasonably be offered to another pupil.
Any charge will reflect the direct loss resulting from the cancellation and will not exceed the agreed lesson price.
Repeated late cancellations or missed lessons may result in RPT declining further bookings, after reasonable notice where practicable.
-
Missed lessons, lateness and meeting places
You must be ready at the agreed meeting place at the lesson start time.
If you do not attend, RPT will normally wait for up to 10 minutes unless contact has been made and another arrangement agreed. The lesson may then be treated as missed and charged under section 7.
If you arrive late, the lesson will normally finish at the originally agreed time and the full booked period may remain payable.
If you ask to begin or finish at a different location, this must be agreed beforehand.
RPT may refuse a location that is outside the service area, unsuitable for the pupil’s experience or impractical within the booked lesson time.
-
Instructor delays and cancellations
RPT will aim to arrive on time and provide lessons as booked.
Lessons may occasionally be delayed, rearranged or cancelled because of circumstances such as illness, severe weather, traffic disruption, emergencies or vehicle breakdown.
If RPT cancels a lesson, any payment already made will be transferred to a replacement lesson or refunded, at your choice.
If RPT arrives late, the lost time will normally be added to the lesson or credited.
If a vehicle problem ends a lesson early, the undelivered time will be rearranged, credited or refunded.
-
Safety, behaviour and mobile phones
RPT aims to provide a calm, professional and respectful learning environment.
Aggressive, abusive, threatening, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated.
Smoking and vaping are not permitted in the tuition vehicle.
RPT may pause or end a lesson immediately if safety or professional standards are being compromised.
A lesson ended because of the pupil’s unsafe or unacceptable behaviour may be charged where this reflects RPT’s resulting loss.
Pupils must not use or handle a mobile phone while driving.
Phones should be silenced and stored securely unless RPT permits their use for a lesson-related purpose while the vehicle is safely parked.
-
Use of the tuition vehicle for a practical test
You must book, change or cancel your own practical driving test.
Tell RPT the date, time and test centre as soon as the booking is made.
The tuition vehicle is not reserved for the test until RPT has confirmed availability.
The lesson time, vehicle-use arrangements and price for test day will be confirmed separately before RPT accepts the booking.
RPT may refuse or withdraw use of the tuition vehicle if, in Richard’s professional judgement:
• Your driving is not yet at a safe and suitable standard for an unaccompanied practical test.
• You are not fit to drive safely.
• You do not hold the required licence or documents.
• The vehicle, examiner, instructor or other road users could be placed at unreasonable risk.
• The vehicle cannot lawfully or safely be used for the test.
RPT will give as much notice as reasonably practicable, but immediate withdrawal may be necessary if a serious safety, legal or vehicle concern arises.
This decision is made in the interests of the pupil, examiner, instructor and other road users.
-
DVSA cancellations and test problems
RPT is not responsible for a test cancelled, delayed or prevented by the DVSA or by circumstances outside RPT’s reasonable control.
These circumstances may include:
• Severe weather.
• Examiner availability.
• Industrial action.
• Operational disruption.
• DVSA technical problems.
If the DVSA cancels at short notice, RPT charges may still be payable where they represent instructor time or costs that cannot reasonably be recovered.
If no RPT service is supplied and RPT suffers no direct loss, unused payment will be credited or refunded.
You are responsible for bringing the documents required by the DVSA, meeting the eyesight standard and attending at the correct time and place.
This section does not limit any rights you may have against the DVSA or any responsibility RPT has where a test cannot proceed because of RPT’s vehicle or service.
-
Ending tuition
You may stop taking lessons at any time, subject to valid cancellation charges for lessons already booked.
RPT may stop providing tuition because of:
• Non-payment.
• Repeated missed lessons.
• Persistent unsafe behaviour.
• Abusive or inappropriate behaviour.
• Loss of your legal entitlement to drive.
• A serious breakdown in the professional relationship.
Where practicable, RPT will explain the reason and give reasonable notice.
Immediate termination may be necessary for a serious safety, legal or behavioural concern.
-
Refunds
No refund is due merely because a completed lesson did not produce the outcome the pupil hoped for.
This does not affect your statutory rights where a service has not been supplied with reasonable care and skill or as agreed.
Unused prepaid lesson fees will be refunded on written request, less any valid cancellation charge and any other deduction clearly agreed before payment.
Refunds will normally be made within 14 days using the original payment method where reasonably possible.
Nothing in these terms affects your statutory consumer rights.
-
Personal property and responsibility
Please take your belongings when leaving the tuition vehicle.
RPT is not responsible for property left behind except where loss or damage results from RPT’s negligence or where responsibility cannot legally be excluded.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
-
Personal information, photographs and reviews
RPT handles personal information in accordance with the RPT Driver Training Privacy Policy:
https://www.rptdrivertraining.co.uk/privacy-policy/
This includes information used to answer enquiries, arrange lessons, maintain appropriate records and assess matters relevant to safe and lawful tuition.
Information about health or medication should be limited to what is relevant to safe and lawful driving and will be handled with particular care.
A photograph, pass announcement, testimonial or review will only be published with separate permission.
Refusing publicity permission will not affect your lessons.
-
Changes to these terms
RPT may update these terms when necessary.
The version supplied when a booking or prepaid arrangement is agreed will apply to that booking or arrangement unless a change is required by law, needed to address an immediate safety issue or expressly agreed with you.
Material changes affecting future lessons will be communicated before they take effect.
The version number and effective date will be displayed at the top of this page.
-
Questions and complaints
If you have a question or complaint, contact Richard Tidswell:
Telephone: 07894 810675
Email: rptdrivertraining@outlook.com
RPT will consider the matter fairly and respond as soon as reasonably practicable.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Nothing in this section removes any right a consumer has to bring a claim in another court where applicable consumer law permits it.
-
Accepting these terms
Before the first lesson, please confirm by text message or WhatsApp that you have received, read and accepted these Terms and Conditions.
RPT will retain the confirmation as part of the booking record.
Suggested confirmation message:
“I confirm that I have received, read and accept the RPT Driver Training Terms and Conditions. I request that any lesson I book within the next 14 days may begin during the cancellation period, and I understand that I must pay for services supplied.”
Where the pupil is under 18, the parent or guardian who books or pays for lessons should also provide this confirmation.
Print