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The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975
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- art. 5(2)(c)(ii) substituted by S.I. 2018/1295 reg. 6(2)(a)(iii)
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- art. 5(2)(e) inserted by S.I. 2022/845 art. 2(2)
- art. 5(2)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2018/1295 reg. 6(2)(a)(ii)
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7.—(1) In this Order—U.K.
“the Secretary of State” means
“prescribed” means
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this Order (except as provided by the next following paragraph of this Article) as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act this Order (except as aforesaid) was an Act of Parliament and the Orders revoked by Article 8(1) of this Order were Acts of Parliament thereby repealed.
(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply for the interpretation of Articles 5A and 8(2) of, and Part II of Schedule 4 to, this Order as it applies for the interpretation of a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(4) Any reference in this Order to any enactment shall be taken as a reference to that enactment as amended by, or under any other enactment; and any reference to an enactment which has effect subject to modifications specified in an enactment shall, when those modifications cease to have effect, then be construed as a reference to the first mentioned enactment as having effect without those modifications.
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