Finance Act 1996

Vehicle licences

2 (1) Section 7 of the 1994 Act (issue of vehicle licences) shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) After subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsections—

“(3A) A person applying for a licence shall not be required to make a declaration specified for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) if he agrees to comply with such conditions as may be specified in relation to him by the Secretary of State.

(3B) The conditions which may be specified under subsection (3A) include a condition that particulars for the time being specified for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) are furnished by being transmitted to the Secretary of State by such electronic means as he may specify.”

(3) Sub-paragraph (2) above applies to applications made on or after the day on which this Act is passed.

(4) In subsection (6)—

(a) after “may provide for—” there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(aa) the return of any vehicle licence which is damaged or contains any particulars which have become illegible or inaccurate,”;

(b) in paragraph (a), after “or damaged”, there shall be inserted “or which contains any particulars which have become illegible or inaccurate”; and

(c) at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “in any of those circumstances”.