Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 2909
Road Traffic
The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Made
16th November 2013
Laid before Parliament
20th November 2013
Coming into force
16th December 2013
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(1D) and (2) and 57(1) and (2)(a) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 16th December 2013.
Preliminary
2.The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002( 2 ) are amended in accordance with the following regulations.
Amendments to regulation 33 (nil licences)
3. —(1) In regulation 33(3)(a), at the beginning insert “subject to paragraph (3A),”.
(2) After regulation 33(3), insert—
“ (3A) A first nil licence may be granted for a period—
(a) in accordance with paragraph (3)(a), or
(b) consisting in the aggregate of 12 months commencing with the relevant month and the appropriate number of days.
(3B) In paragraph (3A)—
“first nil licence” means a nil licence for a vehicle on the issue of which the vehicle is first registered under the 1994 Act;
“the relevant month” means the month immediately following the month in which the nil licence first has effect; and
“the appropriate number of days” is the number of days between the tenth or seventeenth or twenty-fourth day (as appropriate) of the month in which the nil licence first has effect and the last day of that month (inclusive of both those days). ” .
Amendments to Schedule 4 (statutory off-road notification)
4. Paragraphs 5 and 9 of Schedule 4 are omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Robert Goodwill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
16th November 2013
1994 c.22 ; section 22(1D) was inserted by the Finance Act 1996 (c.8) , section 23 and Schedule 2, paragraphs 6 and 7 and amended by the Finance Act 2002 (c.23) , section 19(1) and Schedule 5, paragraphs 1 and 6(1) and subsequently amended by the Finance Act 2008 (c.9) , sections 144(1) and (4). Section 57(1) was amended by the Finance Act 1996, sections 23 and 205, Schedule 2, paragraph 16 and Schedule 41, Part II, paragraph 6.
S.I. 2002/2742 ; amended by S.I. 2003/2154 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.