(1) Any person who is unwilling to make the declaration which is required by Part III of this Act to accompany or be contained in an application for a driving licence or who is by reason of any physical deformity or defect incapable of driving a mechanically propelled vehicle of the ordinary pattern with the usual fittings and features may apply to the superintendent of the Gárda Síochána of the district in which he ordinarily resides or, if he does not ordinarily reside in Saorstát Eireann, to such superintendent of the Gárda Síochána as the Commissioner shall direct for such certificate of fitness as is hereinafter mentioned.
(2) Every person who proposes to apply under this section for any such certificate of fitness as is hereinafter mentioned shall, within one month before making such application, cause himself to be examined by a qualified medical practitioner and shall obtain from such medical practitioner a signed report in writing as to the physical and mental fitn