SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 2AOffence of keeping vehicle which does not meet insurance requirements: immobilisation, removal and disposal of vehicles

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 2A inserted (prosp.) after Sch. 2 by virtue of Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), ss. 22(3), 61, Sch. 5

Offences connected with immobilisation

2

1

The regulations may provide that a person contravening provision made under paragraph 1(8) above is guilty of an offence.

2

The regulations may provide that a person who, without being authorised to do so in accordance with provision made under paragraph 1 above, removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fixed to a vehicle in accordance with the regulations is guilty of an offence.

3

The regulations may provide that where they would apply in relation to a vehicle but for provision made under paragraph 1(7)(a) above and the vehicle was not, at the time it was stationary, being used—

a

in accordance with regulations under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, and

b

in circumstances falling within section 117(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (use where a disabled person's concession would be available),

the person in charge of the vehicle at that time is guilty of an offence.

4

The regulations may provide that where—

a

a person makes a declaration with a view to securing the release of a vehicle from an immobilisation device purported to have been fixed in accordance with the regulations,

b

the declaration is that no offence under section 144A of this Act is or was being committed as regards the vehicle, and

c

the declaration is to the person's knowledge either false or in any material respect misleading,

he is guilty of an offence.