Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 2123

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

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1987 No. 2123

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16 and 37 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971^[1] , and of all enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

Amendment of Regulations
    2.    The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971^[2] shall be further amended in accordance with these Regulations.

    3.    In regulation 28(1)(a), the words from "and all recovery vehicles" to "business" shall be omitted.

    4.    In regulation 35 —
 (a) in paragraph (3) the words "or a recovery vehicle" to "business" shall be omitted, and
 (b) sub-paragraph (l) of paragraph 4 shall be omitted.

    5.    In regulation 38(1), sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport

8th December 1987

    1.    These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971 in consequence of the Finance Act 1987.

    2.    Section 2 of the Finance Act 1987 amended the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 for the purpose of establishing recovery vehicles as a class of vehicles chargeable with a specific duty of excise.

    3.    Previously, under section 16 of the 1971 Act a motor trader could take out a trade licence for all recovery vehicles kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business. As a result of the amendments made by the 1987 Act trade licences can no longer be taken out for a recovery vehicle kept for that purpose.

    4.    Part V of the principal Regulations deals with trade licences. The amendments remove from Part V the provisions relating to recovery vehicles.

[1] 1971 c. 10; section 16 was amended by the Finance Act 1987 (c. 16), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 5. back

[2] S.I. 1971/450; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/2101. back