The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2004

The Directive

3.—(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 vehicles(1) as amended by Commission Directive 2003/127/EC of 23 December 2003(2);”.

(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.”; and

(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”.

(1)

OJ No. L.138, 1.6.1999, p. 57.

(2)

OJ No. L.10, 16.1.2004, p. 29.