1974 No. 791
The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1974
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation
The Secretary of State for the Environment, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers, in the exercise of powers conferred by that section and, so far as concerns Regulation 6 of these Regulations, in the exercise of powers conferred by that section and section 157(e) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 199 of the Act of 1972, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1
These Regulations shall come into operation on 27th May 1974 and may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1974.
2
The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) Regulations 1973 2 shall be amended so as to have effect in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3
In Regulation 2(1) (interpretation), at the end there shall be added the words“and references to a relevant foreign state are references to Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.”
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4
In Regulation 6(1) (power to require production of the existence of insurance in certain cases), after the word “state”
, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted the words “(other than a relevant foreign state)”
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5
In Regulation 7(3)(c) (vehicle detained under Regulation 7 may be released if it is to be taken out of Great Britain to a place not in EEC territory), at the end there shall be added the words “and not in the territory of a relevant foreign state.”
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6
In Regulation 8 (certain provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1972 relating to compulsory insurance not to apply in relation to insurance policies issued outside the United Kingdom in respect of certain vehicles), for the words “in the territory”
onwards there shall be substituted the words “in the territory other than the United Kingdom and Gibraltar of a member State of the Communities or of a relevant foreign state.”
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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State