Finance Act 1959

Section 10.

THIRD SCHEDULE Consequential amendments as to Vehicle Excise Licences

1 (1) The Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In section one, in paragraph (a) (which charges the duties), after the word " used " there shall be inserted the words " or kept ".

(3) In section seven, in subsection (1), after the word " used " in each place where it occurs in paragraphs (b), (f) and (g) and in the first place where it occurs in paragraph (h), there shall be inserted the words " or kept on a road ", in subsection (2) for the words " or not, or " there shall be substituted the words " or not, or by reason of the keeping thereof for such use or by reason of the use thereof ", and at the end of subsection (4) there shall be inserted the words " in respect of the use of the vehicle on roads ".

(4) In section nine, in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) (which provides that one licence does not entitle the holder to use more than one vehicle), after the word "use" there shall be inserted the words " or keep ".

(5) A trade licence, that is to say a licence under section ten, shall not authorise the keeping of a vehicle on a road if it is not being used thereon.

(6) In section fifteen, in subsection (1) (under which it is an offence to use a vehicle on a road without a licence), after the word " uses " where it first occurs there shall be inserted the words " or keeps ", and in subsection (3) (which where an offence is alleged enables information to be required from the owner of the vehicle and other persons as to the identity of the driver or person using the vehicle) after the word " used " there shall be inserted the words " or kept " ; and in relation to an alleged offence of keeping a vehicle in contravention of the said subsection (1) paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) of the said section fifteen shall have effect with the substitution for references to the driver or any person using the vehicle of references to the person keeping the vehicle.

(7) In section nineteen, in subsection (1) (which makes it an offence not to carry registration marks and hackney carriage signs) and in subsection (2) (which requires marks and signs fixed on a vehicle to be kept unobscured and easily distinguishable), after the words " person driving the vehicle" there shall be inserted the words " or, where the vehicle is not being driven, the person keeping the vehicle ".

2 In the Finance Act, 1952, in section seven, at the end of subsection (3) (which provides for exempting vehicles from vehicle excise duty when used for a civil defence purpose) there shall be added the words " or by reason of its being kept on a road for any such use, or both ".