2004 No. 3298
The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2004
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to data protection, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by section 22(1)(d), (e) and (f) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 19943, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 15th January 2005.
Amendments2
The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 20024 shall be further amended in accordance with the following regulations.
The Directive3
1
In regulation 3(1), after the definition of “bicycle” there shall be added—
“the Directive” means Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles5 as amended by Commission Directive 2003/127/EC of 23 December 20036;
2
In regulation 10A—
a
in paragraph (1), there shall be added at the beginning “Subject to paragraph (1A),”;
b
after paragraph (1), there shall be added—
1A
Paragraph (3A) applies to any vehicle registered under the 1994 Act or its predecessor legislation.
c
in paragraph (2), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;
d
in paragraph (3), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;
e
after paragraph (3), there shall be added—
3A
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Regulations, the Secretary of State may, without charge and on surrender by the registered keeper of a registration document issued before 31st January 2004, issue to the registered keeper a registration document which is in a form provided for by the Directive in respect of the same vehicle if it appears proper and reasonable to him to do so.
f
in paragraph (4), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC” there shall be substituted “the Directive”.
3
In regulation 27A, for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”.
Destruction or export of a vehicle4
In regulation 17, the words “and, at the same time, surrender the registration document to him” shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
(This note is not part of the Regulations)