The Unauthorised Encampments (Retention and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Application and interpretation

2.—(1) These Regulations apply to vehicles which have been seized and removed by a police constable under Article 4 or 7(1) of the 2005 Order.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 2005 Order” means the Unauthorised Encampments (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;

“the authority” means a police officer or other person authorised by the district commander of the police under regulation 3(1);

“N.I. registration mark” means a registration mark issued in relation to a vehicle under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1);

“owner” includes—

(a)

the person by whom, according to the records maintained by the Secretary of State for Transport in connection with any function exercisable by him by virtue of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, the vehicle is kept and used;

(b)

in relation to a vehicle which is the subject of a hiring agreement or a hire-purchase agreement, the person entitled to possession of the vehicle under the agreement;

“removal notice” means a notice complying with regulation 4;

“specified information”, in relation to a vehicle, means such of the following information as can be or could have been ascertained from an inspection of the vehicle, or has been ascertained from any other source, that is to say:

(a)

in the case of a vehicle which carries a N.I. registration mark, or a mark indicating registration in a place outside Northern Ireland, particulars of that mark; and

(b)

the make of the vehicle.

(1)

1994 c. 22