Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 15th January 2005.

Amendments

2.The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002( 4 ) shall be further amended in accordance with the following regulations.

The Directive

3. —(1) In regulation 3(1), after the definition of “bicycle” there shall be added—

“ “the Directive” means Council Directive 1999/37/ EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles ( 5 ) as amended by Commission Directive 2003/127/EC of 23 December 2003 ( 6 ) ; ” .

(2) In regulation 10A—

(a) in paragraph (1), there shall be added at the beginning “Subject to paragraph (1A),”;

(b) after paragraph (1), there shall be added—

“ (1A) Paragraph (3A) applies to any vehicle registered under the 1994 Act or its predecessor legislation. ” ;

(c) in paragraph (2), for “Council Directive vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;

(d) in paragraph (3), for “Council Directive vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;

(e) after paragraph (3), there shall be added—

“ (3A) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Regulations, the Secretary of State may, without charge and on surrender by the registered keeper of a registration document issued before 31st January 2004, issue to the registered keeper a registration document which is in a form provided for by the Directive in respect of the same vehicle if it appears proper and reasonable to him to do so. ” ; and

(f) in paragraph (4), for “Council Directive

(3) In regulation 27A, for “Council Directive vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”.

Destruction or export of a vehicle

4. In regulation 17, the words “and, at the same time, surrender the registration document to him” shall be omitted.