Prospective
7.—(1) Where the authority dispose of or destroy a vehicle pursuant to these Regulations they shall, where it is possible to do so, give information relating to the disposal or destruction of the vehicle to the person from whom the vehicle was seized, to any person who appears to the authority to have been the owner of the vehicle immediately before it was disposed of, and —
(a)if the vehicle carried a G.B. registration mark, to the Secretary of State for Transport;
(b)if the vehicle carried a mark indicating registration in Northern Ireland, to the Secretary of State for Transport and to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland;
(c)if the vehicle carried a mark indicating registration in the Republic of Ireland, to the Secretary of State for Transport and to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;
(d)if the vehicle carried a registration mark other than one mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above, to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
(2) In this regulation “information relating to the disposal or destruction of a vehicle” means —
(a)any information which is sufficient to relate the information now being given to any information previously given to the same person in respect of the removal, retention, disposal or destruction of the vehicle; and
(b)such of the specified information as has not been previously given to the same person in respect of the removal, retention, disposal or destruction of the vehicle.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 7 in force at 10.4.1995, see reg. 1