Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994
2.—(1) The Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 3(1) (issue of certificates of insurance or security), for the words after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—
“Provided that where a security is intended to cover the use of more than ten motor vehicles at one time the company by whom it was issued may issue one certificate only and the holder of the security may issue duplicate copies of such certificate duly authenticated by him.”.
(3) In regulation 7 (production of evidence of insurance or security on application for excise licences), after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—
“(3) A person shall not, when applying for a licence under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(2), be required to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) if—
(a)the motor vehicle in respect of which the licence is applied for is part of a fleet of not less than 250 motor vehicles owned by one person;
(b)the person who applies for the licence manages the fleet of motor vehicles on behalf of the owner of the fleet under a contract; and
(c)the contract under which the person manages the fleet contains a requirement that all the motor vehicles in the fleet be insured in accordance with the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
(4) A person applying for a vehicle licence under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 shall not be required to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) if—
(a)on the date when the licence is to come into operation there will be in force the necessary policy in relation to the use of the vehicle by the applicant or by other persons on his order or with his permission;
(b)the policy has been issued by an insurer which has entered into an agreement with the Department for the purposes of this paragraph of this regulation;
(c)in pursuance of that agreement the insurer has either—
(i)made available for inspection by the Department an electronic data base maintained by it, on which there are recorded sufficient particulars of the policy to enable the Department to satisfy itself that condition (a) is satisfied; or
(ii)confirmed to the Department that condition (a) is satisfied.”.