The Motor Vehicles (Exemption from Vehicles Excise Duty) Order 1985

• Citation: S.I. 1985/722
• Sections: 4

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Exemption from Vehicles Excise Duty) Order 1985.

Section 2

In this Order

“ army inter-war pensioners ” means former members of Her Majesty's military forces in receipt of a disability pension paid by the Secretary of State for Defence on account of disability attributable to injury sustained after 30th September 1921 but before 3rd September 1939.

Section 3

The following payments are hereby specified pursuant to section 7(2A) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 as payments included within the meaning of the expression ‘ mobility supplement ’ for the purposes of section 7(2) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, being payments appearing to the Secretary of State to be of a similar kind to those specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said section 7(2A):

mobility supplement paid under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Disablement Awards) Order 1984 or under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Disablement Awards) ( No. 2) Order 1984;

mobility supplement paid under Queen's Regulations for the Royal Air Force; and

supplementary allowance paid under Royal Warrant dated 30th December 1949 to army inter-war pensioners equivalent to the mobility supplement provided for by Article 26A of the Naval Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 .

Section 4

This Order is deemed to have come into force on 21st November 1983.