Amendments to the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002
34. The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(1) are amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 17 the words “destroyed or” shall be deleted;
(b)after regulation 17 the following shall be inserted—
“Vehicles to which the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive applies
17A.—(1) This regulation applies to a vehicle to which Directive 2000/53 of the European Parliament and of the Council on end-of-life vehicles applies and which is—
(a)registered in the GB or NI records; or
(b)designed or adapted for use on a road and would be registered but for the fact that it falls within the exemption in regulation 29(2).
(2) Where a vehicle to which this regulation applies is transferred to an authorised treatment facility—
(a)if that facility is in the United Kingdom, the owner or operator thereof shall notify the Secretary of State of the issue of a certificate of destruction pursuant to regulation 27 of the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations and at the same time shall surrender the registration document to him, except where the registration document has been lost, stolen or destroyed; and
(b)if that facility is in an EEA State other than the United Kingdom, the registered keeper of the vehicle shall notify the Secretary of State of the issue in that other EEA State of a certificate of destruction and at the same time the registered keeper shall surrender the registration document to him except where the registration document has been lost, stolen or destroyed.
(3) Where the Secretary of State has been notified of the issue of a certificate of destruction he shall not as respects the vehicle to which it relates—
(a)record in the GB records or, in the case of a vehicle registered in Northern Ireland, in the NI records any further change of keeper;
(b)accept the required declaration in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4.
(4) In this regulation “authorised treatment facility”, “certificate of destruction” and “EEA State” have the meanings that those expressions have in the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003.”; and
(c)In Schedule 8—
(i)in column 1 under the heading “Regulation”, after “17” there shall be inserted “17A”; and
(ii)in column 2 under the heading “Subject matter of regulation”, after “Notification of destruction or permanent export of a vehicle” there shall be inserted “Notification of the issue of a certificate of destruction: vehicle to which the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive applies”.
S.I. 2002/2742.