The Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  The Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) Regulations 1969 (“the 1969 Regulations”) authorise the holding of certain competitions or trials (other than races or trials of speed) involving the use of motor vehicles on highways, subject to conditions, including conditions requiring the payment of fees, imposed by or under the Regulations.

2.  These Regulations amend the 1969 Regulations so as to make separate provision for, and to decrease the fee payable to the Royal Automobile Club for the authorisation of, events whose route mileage does not exceed 10 miles. The fees payable for events whose route mileage exceeds 10 miles are increased. The existing fees were set in 1982 and are listed below together with the new fees per vehicle for events.

	Existing	New
(a) Route mileage not exceeding 10 miles	£1.40	£1.00
(b) Route mileage exceeding 10 miles but not exceeding 100 miles	£1.40	£2.00
(c) Route mileage exceeding 100 miles but not exceeding 150 miles	£2.10	£2.70
(d) Route mileage exceeding 15 miles but not exceeding 200 miles	£2.80	£3.50
(e) Route mileage exceeding 200 miles	£5.60	£7.00

3.  The Regulations amend the Standard Conditions for events as follows.

(a) The RAC has power to modify Standard Condition 5 (no competitor to be dispatched from a starting point at an interval less than one minute from the dispatch of the previous competitor) in respect of all events and not just the events specified in Schedule 4 to the 1969 Regulations.

(b) Standard Condition 14 is amended so that on a motorway the average speed of certain vehicles in an event shall not exceed 60 mph (previously 50 mph). The vehicles which will be affected can broadly be described as small passenger vehicles. It is also amended so that the average speed of a motor car adapted to carry no more than 7 passengers which is towing a caravan in an event on a motorway must not exceed 50 mph.

4.  The Regulations amend the Schedule of “Specified Events” to include references to the Classic Run promoted by RAC Motor Sports Association Ltd and to the International Rally promoted by De Lacy Motor Club Ltd. The Auto-Cycle Union International Training Trial is replaced by the Auto-Cycle Union International Trial, an event to be held in England and Wales.