SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Vehicle licensing and registration

Registration regulations

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After subsection (1C) of section 22 of the 1994 Act there shall be inserted the following subsections—

1D

The Secretary of State may by regulations require a person—

a

who surrenders a vehicle licence under section 10(2),

b

who does not renew a vehicle licence for a vehicle kept by him, or

c

who keeps an unlicensed vehicle at any place in the United Kingdom,

to furnish such particulars and make such declarations as may be prescribed by the regulations, and to do so at such times and in such manner as may be so prescribed.

1E

For the purposes of subsection (1D)(b) a person shall be regarded as not renewing a vehicle licence for a vehicle kept by him if—

a

he keeps a vehicle for which a vehicle licence is in force, and

b

he does not, at such time as may be prescribed by the regulations or within such period as may be so prescribed, take out a vehicle licence to have effect from the expiry of the vehicle licence mentioned in paragraph (a).

1F

For the purposes of subsection (1D)(c) a vehicle is unlicensed if no vehicle licence is in force for the vehicle.

1G

Regulations under subsection (1D) may make such transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate.