The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2001/561 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1079

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

19th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

20th March 2001

Coming into force

for the purpose of regulation 1(1)(a) and regulation 17 of the principal Regulations

21st March 2001

for all other purposes

1st September 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 23(3) and (4) and 57 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of this paragraph and regulation 17 of the principal Regulations, on 21st March 2001, and

(b) for all other purposes, on 1st September 2001.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001(2).

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 14(11)—

(a) for “(b)” there is substituted “(a)”, and

(b) for “(c)” there is substituted “(b)”.

(3) In regulation 16(2)(b), for “Registration” there is substituted “Regulation”.

Signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

19th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make minor amendments to the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 to correct errors in the original text.

(1)

1994 c. 22. Section 57(1) was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8). Schedule 2, paragraph 16.

(2)

S.I. 2001/561.