The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2154

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

19th August 2003

Laid before Parliament

26th August 2003

Coming into force

1st October 2003

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(1)(c) and (d), (1B), (2) and (2A), 57(1) and 59(2)(a) of, and paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 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 Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

Preliminary

2.  The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(2) shall be amended as follows.

Change of keeper

3.—(1) In regulation 21(3) for “he shall notify” there shall be substituted “he shall forthwith notify”.

(2) In regulation 22(2)(b) for “the remainder of the registration document to the Secretary of State, duly completed to include the following” there shall be substituted “to the Secretary of State on the remainder of the registration document, or otherwise in writing, the following information”.

(3) In regulation 24(5)(a)(iii) for “registered keeper” there shall be substituted “vehicle trader”.

Disclosure of registration and licensing particulars

4.  In regulation 27(1)(d) “in Northern Ireland” shall be omitted.

Nil licences

5.  In regulation 33(1) after “otherwise” there shall be inserted “than”.

Regulations prescribed under section 59(2) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994

6.  In regulation 47 for “(fines not to exceed level 3 on the standard scale applies)” there shall be substituted “(fines not to exceed level 3 on the standard scale) applies”.

Exempt vehicles: vehicles imported by members of foreign armed forces and others

7.  In Schedule 5 for paragraph 3 and 4 there shall be substituted paragraphs 3 and 4 as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

19th August 2003

Regulation 7

SCHEDULE PARAGRAPHS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR PARAGRAPHS 3 AND 4 OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

“List of countries

3.   The countries referred to in paragraph 1(2)(b) are—

Albania	Malaysia
Antigua and Barbuda	Maldives
Armenia	Malta
Australia	Mauritius
Austria	Moldova
Azerbaijan	Namibia
The Bahamas	Nauru
Bangladesh	The Netherlands
Barbados	New Zealand
Belarus	Nigeria
Belgium	Norway
Belize	Pakistan
Botswana	Papua New Guinea
Brunei	Poland
Bulgaria	Portugal
Canada	Romania
The Republic of Cyprus	Russia
The Czech Republic	Saint Christopher and Nevis
Denmark	Saint Lucia
Dominica	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Estonia	Samoa
Fiji	Seychelles
Finland	Sierra Leone
France	Singapore
The Gambia	Slovakia
Georgia	Slovenia
Germany	Solomon Islands
Ghana	South Africa
Greece	Spain
Grenada	Sri Lanka
Guyana	Swaziland
Hungary	Sweden
India	Switzerland
Italy	Tanzania
Jamaica	Tonga
Kazakhstan	Trinidad and Tobago
Kenya	Turkey
Kiribati	Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan	Tuvalu
Latvia	Uganda
Lesotho	Ukraine
Lithuania	United States of America
Luxembourg	Uzbekistan
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Vanuatu
	Zambia
Malawi	Zimbabwe

List of headquarters and organisations

4.   The headquarters and organisations referred to in paragraph 1(2)(c) are—

• The Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT)

• The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)

• Headquarters Allied Forces North Western Europe (AFNORTHWEST)

• Headquarters Allied Air Forces North Western Europe (AIRNORTHWEST)

• Headquarters Allied Naval Forces North Western Europe (NAVNORTHWEST)

• Headquarters Maritime Air Forces North West (MARAIRNORTHWEST)

• Headquarters Submarine Forces North West (SUBNORTHWEST)

• Headquarters Allied Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (EASTLANT)

• Headquarters Maritime Air Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (MARAIREASTLANT)

• Headquarters Submarine Forces Eastern Atlantic Area (SUBEASTLANT)

• Headquarters United Kingdom—Netherlands Amphibious Force (UKNLAF)

• Headquarters United Kingdom—Netherlands Landing Force (UKNLLF)

• The NATO Airborne Early Warning Force Headquarters and the NATO E-3A Component”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“the Principal Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends provisions of the Principal Regulations about changes in the keeper of a vehicle. Regulation 4 amends regulation 27 of the Principal Regulations so that the exemption from the payment of a fee for the disclosure of information is extended to all Customs and Excise officers. Regulations 5 and 6 make small drafting amendments to regulations 33 and 47.

Regulation 7 amends Schedule 5 to the Principal Regulations, which exempts vehicles imported by members of specified foreign armed forces and international headquarters and organisations from vehicle excise duty, by substituting new lists of countries and other bodies concerned.

(1)

1994 c. 22; in section 22 subsection (1)(d) was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8) Schedule 2, paragraph 4; subsection (1B) was inserted by the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4) Schedule 4, paragraph 34 and amended by the Finance Act 1996, Schedule 2, paragraphs 4 and 5 and Schedule 41, Part II(6); subsection (2A) was inserted by the Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58) section 14(3).

(2)

S.I. 2002/2742.