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The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Information Centre and Compensation Body) Regulations 2003

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The information centre for the United Kingdom and its duties

3.—(1) MIIC is approved as the information centre for the United Kingdom for the purposes of the fourth motor insurance directive(1).

(2) The information centre shall establish a means of access to the specified information in a manner whereby it can co-ordinate and disseminate that information for the purposes of these Regulations.

(3) The information centre shall retain access to the specified information for a period of not less than seven years commencing on—

(a)in the case of the information specified in regulation 4(a), (c) and (d), the date on which the vehicle ceases to be registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, and

(b)in the case of the information specified in regulation 4(b), the day immediately following the date of expiry of the policy of insurance to which that information relates.

(4) Where the information necessary to enable the information centre to respond to a request from a person under regulation 9 does not form part of the specified information, the information centre shall obtain from the foreign information centre of the territory in which the vehicle is normally based such information as may from time to time be required so as to enable the information centre to comply with regulation 9.

(5) Where the information centre is satisfied that a valid request for the name and address of the registered keeper of a vehicle has been made to it pursuant to regulation 9 it shall immediately seek the information from the Secretary of State.

(6) The information centre shall co-operate with every foreign information centre to the extent necessary to enable those centres to discharge their functions under the fourth motor insurance directive.

(1)

See Article 5.

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