The Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 35

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The Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

12th January 1999

Laid before Parliament

21st January 1999

Coming into force

15th February 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2A to, the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 15th February 1999.

Amendment of the Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1997

2.—(1) The Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1997(2) shall be further amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 10(4)(b) for “21 days” there shall be substituted “14 days”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment,Transport and the Regions

12th January 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 10 of the Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1997 so as to reduce, from 21 days to 14 days, the period within which the owner may be required by notice to remove a mechanically propelled vehicle which has been impounded after being found unlicensed on a public road.

(1)

1994 c. 22. Section 57 was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Schedule 2, paragraph 16; Schedule 2A was inserted by the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Schedule 4, paragraph 36(2) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2A was amended by the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), section 20.

(2)

S.I. 1997/2439, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.