The Road Traffic (Owner Liability) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2546

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

The Road Traffic (Owner Liability) Regulations 2000

Made

16th September 2000

Laid before Parliament

25th September 2000

Coming into force

16th October 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 84 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(1) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Owner Liability) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 16th October 2000.

2.  The forms contained in Schedule 1 to these Regulations or forms to the like effect may be used for the purposes of sections 62 to 68 of the Act.

3.  The particulars contained in Schedule 2 to these Regulations are hereby prescribed for the purpose of section 66(8) of the Act (particulars to be contained in hiring agreements).

4.  The Road Traffic (Owner Liability) Regulations 1975(2) and the Road Traffic (Owner Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 1975(3) are hereby revoked.

Charles Clarke

Minister of State

Home Office

16th September 2000

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 Forms

1. Fixed Penalties

   1. 1. Notice to owner of vehicle. (FP1)

   2. 2. Statutory statement of ownership and statement by vehicle-hire firm in lieu. (FP2)

   3. 3. Statutory statement of facts (owner). (FP3)

   4. 4. Notice to hirer of vehicle. (FP4)

   5. 5. Statutory statement of hiring. (FP5)

   6. 6. Statutory statement of facts (hirer). (FP6)

2. Excess Charges

   1. 7. Notice to owner of vehicle. (EC1)

   2. 8. Statutory statement of ownership and statement by vehicle-hire firm in lieu. (EC2)

   3. 9. Statutory statement of facts (owner). (EC3)

   4. 10. Notice to hirer of vehicle. (EC4)

   5. 11. Statutory statement of hiring. (EC5)

   6. 12. Statutory statement of facts (hirer). (EC6)

3. Vehicle hire

   1. 13. Statement of liability. (H)

Form FP1

Form FP2

Form FP3 ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS ACT 1988: s. 63(6)

Statutory Statement of Facts

Form FP4

Form FP5

Form FP6 ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS ACT 1988: ss. 63(6) and 66(4)

Statutory Statement of Facts

Form EC1

Form EC2

Form EC3 ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS ACT 1988: ss. 63(6) and 66(4)

Statutory Statement of Facts

Form EC4

Form EC5

Form EC6 ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS ACT 1988: ss. 63(6) and 66(4)

Statutory Statement of Facts

Form H ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS ACT 1988: s. 66(3)

Statement of Liability

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 2 Particulars required in a Hiring Agreement to comply with Section 66 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988

A.    Particulars of person signing statement of liability*

1.

Full Name.

2.

Date of birth.

3.

Permanent Address.

4.

Address at time of hiring (if different from 3 above and stay is likely to be more than two months from date of hiring).

5.

Details of driving licence:

(a)

country where issued (if not UK),

(b)

serial number or driver’s number,

(c)

date of expiry (which should be no later than date specified in B7 below).

* Where the statement of liability is in Part II of form H, the full name and address of the person by or on whose behalf the statement of liability was signed should be supplied together with the date on which it was signed. If the person taking possession of the vehicle is not the same as the person by or on whose behalf the statement was signed, the full name of that person should also be supplied (if known).

B.    Particulars of hiring agreements

1.

Registration mark of vehicle hired under the hiring agreement.

2.

Make and model of vehicle hired under the hiring agreement.

3.

Registration mark of any vehicle substituted for the above during the currency of the hiring agreement.

4.

Make and model of any vehicle substituted for the above during the currency of the hiring agreement.

5.

Time and date of any change of vehicle.

6.

Time and date of commencement of original hiring period.

7.

Expected time and date of expiry of original hiring period.

†8.

Time and date of commencement of authorised extension of hiring period.

†9.

Expected time and date of expiry of authorised extension of hiring period.

†10.

Actual time and date of return of vehicle (or when vehicle returned out of hours time and date on which vehicle-hire firm next opened for business).

† This requirement applies only to the vehicle hire firm’s copy of the hiring agreement.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Schedule 1 to these Regulations prescribes forms for use in connection with sections 62 to 68 of and Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (notices fixed to vehicles). Schedule 2 prescribes the particulars which must be contained in vehicle hiring agreements in order to attract the provisions of section 66 of the Act (hired vehicles).

(1)

1988 c. 53.

(2)

S.I. 1975/324.

(3)

S.I. 1975/706.