The Police (Retention and Disposal of Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

6.—(1) These Regulations amend the Police (Retention and Disposal of Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”). Regulation 3(1) amends regulation 2 of the 2002 Regulations to provide a definition of the term “working days”. Regulation 3(2)(a) amends regulation 4(1) of the 2002 Regulations to provide that the steps which the authority must take to serve a seizure notice on the person appearing to be the owner of the vehicle must be those which are reasonably practicable. Regulation 3(2)(b) amends regulation 4(3)(c) of the 2002 Regulations to provide that the date provided in the seizure notice, on or before which the person to whom the notice is directed is required to claim the vehicle, must be a date not less than 7 working days from the day on which the notice was given to that person. Regulation 4 substitutes a new regulation 7 into the 2002 Regulations, which stipulates that the authority can, subject to the time limits specified, dispose of the vehicle where the person appearing to be the owner of the vehicle fails to comply with a seizure notice given to him under regulation 4(1) of the 2002 Regulations or where the authority has not been able, having taken such steps as are reasonably practicable, to give a seizure notice to that person. Regulation 5 provides that the amendments made by regulations 3 and 4 only have effect in respect of a vehicle seized on or after 1st November 2005.