The Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) Regulations 1992

Authorising Bodies

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, an authorising body may give an authorisation for a motoring event for the purposes of section 13A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 upon such conditions as it thinks fit.

(2) An authorisation for a motoring event given by an authorising body may be revoked by that body or by a person authorised by that body at any time before the event is held or while it is being held.

(3) Every authorisation for a motoring event must include a condition that the event must not be held:—

(a) unless written notice of the proposal to hold the event has been delivered in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (4) below to a police station in each police area in which it is intended that the event is to be held;

(b) other than at the place and during the period specified in each such notice.

(4) In order for a notice of a proposal to hold a motoring event to be delivered to a police station in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph, it must:—

(a) specify the name and address of the person (or of one of the persons) proposing to organise the event;

(b) specify the place where the event is intended to be held;

(c) specify the period during which the event is intended to be held stating in particular the date and time when the event is intended to begin; and

(d) be delivered to the police station at least 6 weeks before that date unless a shorter period is agreed by or on behalf of the chief officer of police for the police area in which the police station is situated.