The Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987

Made: 8th December 1987

Laid before Parliament: 11th December 1987

Coming into force: 1st January 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 8(3)(c) of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

2

The purposes specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972.

THE SCHEDULE — PRESCRIBED PURPOSES

1

Repairing a disabled vehicle at the place where it became disabled or to which it has been moved in the interests of safety after becoming disabled.

2

Drawing or carrying one trailer if that trailer was immediately before a vehicle became disabled, being drawn or carried by the disabled vehicle.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 8th December 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe, in regulation 2 and the Schedule, two purposes for which recovery vehicles may be used — in addition to the recovery or removal of disabled vehicles — without ceasing to be recovery vehicles for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, as added by the Finance Act 1987, Schedule 1, Part II.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 10 (N.I.); paragraph 8 was added to Part I of Schedule 3 by the Finance Act 1987 (c. 16), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 2.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1973/2163.