The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 *** ***See the correction at the end of this SI. ***

2.  For paragraph (1) of regulation 15 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971(1), there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

“(1) The Secretary of State may make any particulars contained in the register available for use—

(a) by a local authority for any purpose connected with the investigation of an offence or of a decriminalised parking contravention;

(b) by a chief officer of police; or

(c) on payment of a fee of such amount as the Secretary of State considers to be reasonable in the circumstances of the case, by any person who can show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that he has reasonable cause for wanting the particulars to be made available to him.

(1A) In paragraph (1) above “a decriminalised parking contravention”means any act or omission which would have been an offence but for any of the following provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1991(2), that is to say—

(a) section 65 (contravention of certain orders relating to parking places in London not to be a criminal offence);

(b) section 76(3) (provisions creating certain stationary vehicle offences to cease to apply in special parking areas in London);

(c) paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 3 (contravention of certain orders relating to parking places outside London not to be a criminal offence); and

(d) paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 3 (provisions creating certain stationary vehicle offences to cease to apply in special parking areas outside London).”

(1)

S.I. 1971/450. Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/607.

(2)

1991 c. 40.