The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

• Citation: S.I. 2013/2909
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 16th December 2013.

Section 2 Preliminary

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 are amended in accordance with the following regulations.

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 33 (nil licences)

(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).

Section 4 Amendments to Schedule 4 (statutory off-road notification)

Paragraphs 5 and 9 of Schedule 4 are omitted.