The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019

PART 2 Removal of securities and deposits as alternatives to motor insurance and transitional and saving provision

Amendments of primary and secondary legislation

2.  Schedule 1 amends—

(a) the Road Traffic Act 1988 (see Part 1);

(b) the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(1) (see Part 2); and

(c) the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005(2) (see Part 3).

3.  Schedule 2 makes amendments to primary legislation as a result of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018(3).

4.  Schedule 3—

(a) amends the Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971(4) (see Part 1);

(b) amends the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972(5) (see Part 2);

(c) amends the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) Regulations 1973(6) (see Part 3);

(d) revokes the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks Deposits) Regulations 1992(7) (see Part 4);

(e) amends the Disclosure of Vehicle Insurance Information Regulations 2005(8) (see Part 5); and

(f) amends the Motor Vehicles (Insurance Requirements) Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal) Regulations 2011(9) (see Part 6).

Transitional and saving provision

5.—(1) This regulation applies to—

(a) a deposit made before 1st November 2019 with the Accountant General of the Senior Courts in accordance with section 144(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(10);

(b) a security given before 1st November 2019 in accordance with section 146 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(11); and

(c) a security which is renewed on or after 1st November 2019 in accordance with section 146 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 having been originally given before that date in accordance with that section.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), regulations 2, 3 and 4 and Schedules 1, 2 and 3 do not apply until 1st November 2021 in relation to a deposit or security to which this regulation applies.

(3) Regulations 2 and 4 and Schedules 1 and 3 do not affect any liability in respect of death or bodily injury or damage to property where—

(a) the event which was the cause of the death or bodily injury or damage to property giving rise to the liability occurred before 1st November 2021; and

(b) at the time the event occurred, there was a deposit or security to which this regulation applies that covered the liability.

(4) Regulation 4(d) and Part 4 of Schedule 3 do not apply to any monies held by the Accountant General of the Senior Courts in relation to a deposit or security to which this regulation applies.

(1)

1988 c.53.

(2)

2005 c.15.

(3)

2018 c.18.

(4)

S.I. 1971/ 792, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(5)

S.I. 1972/1217; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/1283; S.I. 1997/97; S.I. 2001/2266; S.I. 2010/1115; S.I. 2010/1117; S..I. 2013/2904; S.I. 2015/971.

(6)

S.I. 1973/2143, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(7)

S.I. 1992/1284.

(8)

S.I. 2005/2833.

(9)

S.I. 2011/1120, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(10)

Section 144 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 and the Road Traffic Act 1991, section 20. Further amendments made by the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018, paragraph 18 of the Schedule have yet to be brought into force. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.

(11)

Section 146 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 and the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/726), regulation 4.