2003 No. 2154
ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(1)(c) and (d), (1B), (2) and (2A), 57(1) and 59(2)(a) of, and paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 to, the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 19941, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

Preliminary2.

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 20022 shall be amended as follows.

Change of keeper3.

(1)

In regulation 21(3) for “he shall notify” there shall be substituted “he shall forthwith notify”.

(2)

In regulation 22(2)(b) for “the remainder of the registration document to the Secretary of State, duly completed to include the following” there shall be substituted “to the Secretary of State on the remainder of the registration document, or otherwise in writing, the following information”.

(3)

In regulation 24(5)(a)(iii) for “registered keeper” there shall be substituted “vehicle trader”.

Disclosure of registration and licensing particulars4.

In regulation 27(1)(d) “in Northern Ireland” shall be omitted.

Nil licences5.

In regulation 33(1) after “otherwise” there shall be inserted “than”.

Regulations prescribed under section 59(2) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 19946.

In regulation 47 for “(fines not to exceed level 3 on the standard scale applies)” there shall be substituted “(fines not to exceed level 3 on the standard scale) applies”.

Exempt vehicles: vehicles imported by members of foreign armed forces and others7.

In Schedule 5 for paragraph 3 and 4 there shall be substituted paragraphs 3 and 4 as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport

SCHEDULEPARAGRAPHS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR PARAGRAPHS 3 AND 4 OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Regulation 7

“List of countries3.

The countries referred to in paragraph 1(2)(b) are—

Albania

Malaysia

Antigua and Barbuda

Maldives

Armenia

Malta

Australia

Mauritius

Austria

Moldova

Azerbaijan

Namibia

The Bahamas

Nauru

Bangladesh

The Netherlands

Barbados

New Zealand

Belarus

Nigeria

Belgium

Norway

Belize

Pakistan

Botswana

Papua New Guinea

Brunei

Poland

Bulgaria

Portugal

Canada

Romania

The Republic of Cyprus

Russia

The Czech Republic

Saint Christopher and Nevis

Denmark

Saint Lucia

Dominica

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Estonia

Samoa

Fiji

Seychelles

Finland

Sierra Leone

France

Singapore

The Gambia

Slovakia

Georgia

Slovenia

Germany

Solomon Islands

Ghana

South Africa

Greece

Spain

Grenada

Sri Lanka

Guyana

Swaziland

Hungary

Sweden

India

Switzerland

Italy

Tanzania

Jamaica

Tonga

Kazakhstan

Trinidad and Tobago

Kenya

Turkey

Kiribati

Turkmenistan

Kyrgyzstan

Tuvalu

Latvia

Uganda

Lesotho

Ukraine

Lithuania

United States of America

Luxembourg

Uzbekistan

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Vanuatu

Zambia

Malawi

Zimbabwe

List of headquarters and organisations4.

The headquarters and organisations referred to in paragraph 1(2)(c) are—

  • The Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT)

  • The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)

  • Headquarters Allied Forces North Western Europe (AFNORTHWEST)

  • Headquarters Allied Air Forces North Western Europe (AIRNORTHWEST)

  • Headquarters Allied Naval Forces North Western Europe (NAVNORTHWEST)

  • Headquarters Maritime Air Forces North West (MARAIRNORTHWEST)

  • Headquarters Submarine Forces North West (SUBNORTHWEST)

  • Headquarters Allied Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (EASTLANT)

  • Headquarters Maritime Air Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (MARAIREASTLANT)

  • Headquarters Submarine Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (SUBEASTLANT)

  • Headquarters United Kingdom—Netherlands Amphibious Force (UKNLAF)

  • Headquarters United Kingdom—Netherlands Landing Force (UKNLLF)

  • The NATO Airborne Early Warning Force Headquarters and the NATO E-3A Component”

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“the Principal Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends provisions of the Principal Regulations about changes in the keeper of a vehicle. Regulation 4 amends regulation 27 of the Principal Regulations so that the exemption from the payment of a fee for the disclosure of information is extended to all Customs and Excise officers. Regulations 5 and 6 make small drafting amendments to regulations 33 and 47.

Regulation 7 amends Schedule 5 to the Principal Regulations, which exempts vehicles imported by members of specified foreign armed forces and international headquarters and organisations from vehicle excise duty, by substituting new lists of countries and other bodies concerned.