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F1[ 159A Disclosure of informationE+W+S

(1) Regulations may make provision for and in connection with requiring MIIC to make information available to any prescribed person for the purposes of the exercise of any of that person's functions in connection with the enforcement of an offence under this Part of this Act or under regulations made under section 160 of this Act.

(2)In this section—

  • MIIC ” means the Motor Insurers' Information Centre (a company limited by guarantee and incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 on 8th December 1998), and

  • information ” means information held in any form. ]

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160 Regulations.E+W+S

(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations for any purpose for which regulations may be made under this Part of this Act and for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Part of this Act and generally for the purpose of carrying this Part of this Act into effect.

In this Part of this Act “regulations” means regulations under this section and “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations.

(2)In particular, but without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, the regulations may make provision—

(a)as to forms to be used for the purposes of this Part of this Act,

(b)as to applications for and the issue of certificates of insurance F2... and any other documents which may be prescribed, and as to the keeping of records F3. . . and the providing of particulars of them or the giving of information with respect to them to the Secretary of State or a chief officer of police,

(c)as to the issue of copies of any such certificates or other documents which are lost or destroyed,

(d)as to the custody, production, cancellation and surrender of any such certificates or other documents, F4. . .

[F5(da)for or in connection with the transmission or making available of certificates of insurance as described in section 147(1A)(a) or (b) of this Act, and]

(e)for providing that any provisions of this Part of this Act shall, in relation to vehicles brought into Great Britain by persons making only a temporary stay in Great Britain, have effect subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be prescribed.

161 Interpretation.E+W+S

(1)In this Part of this Act—

  • F6[hospital ” means any institution which provides medical or surgical treatment for in-patients, other than—

    (a)

    a health service hospital within the meaning of [F7the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006] or the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,

    (b)

    F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    (c)

    any institution carried on for profit,]

  • policy of insurance” includes a covering note,

  • salvage” means the preservation of a vessel which is wrecked, stranded or in distress, or the lives of persons belonging to, or the cargo or apparel of, such a vessel, and

  • under the owner’s control” means, in relation to a vehicle, that it is being driven by the owner or by a servant of the owner in the course of his employment or is otherwise subject to the control of the owner.

F9(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)In this Part of this Act, any reference to an accident includes a reference to two or more causally related accidents.

Textual Amendments

F6Definition of “hospital" in s. 161(1) substituted (5.4.1999) by 1999 c. 3, s. 18(3); S.I. 1999/1075, art. 2

F7S. 161(1): in definition of "hospital" words in para. (a) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 5, 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 123 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

F8S. 161(1): in the definition of "hospital" para. (b) repealed (29.1.2007) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 169(2), 196, 199, Sch. 14 Pt. 3 (with s. 166); S.I. 2006/3397, art. 3 (subject to art. 4); S.S.I. 2007/10, art. 2(2)(d)(e)(g)

F9S. 161(2) omitted (30.6.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 3 para. 7; S.I. 2015/994, art. 9(a) (with Sch. Pt. 3A) (as amended by S.I. 2015/1405, art. 2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 161 excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 8(1)(b)(2)(b)

Marginal Citations

162 Index to Part VI.E+W+S

The expressions listed in the left-hand column below are respectively defined or (as the case may be) fall to be construed in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act listed in the right-hand column in relation to those expressions.

ExpressionRelevant provision
AccidentSection 161(3)
[F10Authorised insurerSection 145(5)]
Certificate of insuranceSections 147(1) and 161(2)
F11. . .F11. . .
HospitalSection 161(1)
Policy of insuranceSection 161(1)
PrescribedSection 160(1)
RegulationsSection 160(1)
SalvageSection 161(1)
Under the owner’s controlSection 161(1)

Textual Amendments

F10Entry in s. 162 substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 314

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3S. 162 excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 8(1)(b)(2)(b)

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