The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1960;

“authorised insurer” has the same meaning as in Part VI of the Act;

“British Bureau” means the Motor Insurers' Bureau incorporated under the Companies Act 1929, and having its registered office at Aldermary House, Queen Street, London, E.C.4;

“chief officer of police”, and “police area”, in relation to England and Wales, have the same meanings as in the Police Act 1964, and, in relation to Scotland, have the same meanings as in the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;

“Foreign Bureau” means a central organisation set up by motor insurers in any country outside the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands for the purpose of giving effect to international arrangements for the insurance of motorists against third-party risks when entering countries where insurance against such risks is compulsory, and with which organisation the British Bureau has entered into such an arrangement;

“hired motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle which is:—

(a)

designed for private use and with seats for not more than eight persons excluding the driver, and

(b)

specified in an insurance card, and

(c)

last brought into Great Britain by a person making only a temporary stay therein, and

(d)

owned and let for hire by a person whose business includes the letting of vehicles for hire and whose principal place of business is outside the United Kingdom;

“hiring visitor” means a person to whom a hired motor vehicle is let on hire, who is making only a temporary stay in Great Britain and is named as the insured or user of that vehicle in the insurance card in which that vehicle is specified;

“insurance card” means an international motor insurance card issued under the authority of a Foreign Bureau or of the British Bureau which is green in colour and—

(a)

comprises two pages either in English or a foreign language containing the particulars specified in the page marked “original” and in the middle page set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations and which in the case of each entry into the United Kingdom from a country outside thereof of the motor vehicle specified in the card during the period of validity so specified has attached thereto one or more pages green in colour and, either in English or a foreign language, containing the particulars specified in Part II of the said Schedule, each of which said pages is hereinafter referred to as a “duplicate page”; or

(b)

until the 31st December 1977, is either in English or a foreign language in the form specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations and which in the case of each entry into the United Kingdom from a country outside thereof of the motor vehicle specified in the card during the period of validity so specified has attached thereto one or more pages green in colour and, either in English or a foreign language, in the form specified in Part II of the said Schedule, each of which said pages is hereinafter referred to as a “duplicate page”;

“the Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for the Environment;

“trade licence” has the same meaning as in the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971;

“visitor” means a person bringing a motor vehicle into Great Britain, making only a temporary stay therein and named in an insurance card as the insured or user of the vehicle, and includes a hiring visitor who brings a hired motor vehicle into Great Britain, but no other hiring visitor.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to any provision in an Act of Parliament or in subordinate legislation shall be construed as a reference to that provision as amended by any other such provision.

(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act these Regulations were an Act of Parliament and the Regulations revoked by Regulation 2 of these Regulations were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.