The Police (Retention and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1995

Application and interpretation

2.—(1) These Regulations apply to vehicles which have been seized and removed by a constable under section 62(1) or 64(4) of the 1994 Act.

(2) In these Regulations —

“the 1994 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994;

“the authority” means a police officer or other person authorised by the chief officer under regulation 3(1);

“G.B. registration mark” means a registration mark issued in relation to a vehicle under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1);

“local authority” means —

(a)

in relation to England —

(i)

a county council or, in a county where there is no county council, a district council;

(ii)

a London borough council, or the Common Council of the City of London; or

(iii)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(b)

in relation to Scotland —

(i)

until 1st April 1996, a regional or islands or district council;

(ii)

on or after that date, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994(2);

(c)

in relation to Wales —

(i)

until 1st April 1996, a county council;

(ii)

on or after that date, a county council or county borough council;

“owner” includes —

(a)

the person by whom, according to the records maintained by the Secretary of State for Transport in connection with any functions exercisable by him by virtue of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, the vehicle is kept and used;

(b)

in relation to a vehicle which is the subject of a hiring agreement or a hire-purchase agreement, the person entitled to possession of the vehicle under the agreement;

“removal notice” means a notice complying with regulation 4;

“specified information”, in relation to a vehicle, means such of the following information as can be or could have been ascertained from an inspection of the vehicle, or has been ascertained from any other source, that is to say:

(a)

in the case of a vehicle which carries a G.B. registration mark, or a mark indicating registration in a place outside Great Britain, particulars of that mark; and

(b)

the make of the vehicle.

(1)

1994 c. 22.

(2)

1994 c. 39.