The Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2120

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1987

Made

8th December 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th December 1987

Coming into force

1st January 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 8(3)(c) of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(1), and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

2.  The purposes specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

8th December 1987

Regulation 2

THE SCHEDULE PRESCRIBED PURPOSES

1.  Repairing a disabled vehicle at the place where it became disabled or to which it has been moved in the interests of safety after becoming disabled.

2.  Drawing or carrying one trailer if the trailer was immediately before a vehicle became disabled, being drawn or carried by the disabled vehicle.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe, in regulation 2 and the Schedule, two purposes for which recovery vehicles may be used — in addition to the recovery or removal of disabled vehicles — without ceasing to be recovery vehicles for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, as added by the Finance Act 1987, Schedule 1, Part II.

(1)

1971 c. 10; paragraph 8 was added to Part I of Schedule 3 by the Finance Act 1987 (c. 16), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 2.