The Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made: 3rd June 1992

Laid before Parliament: 9th June 1992

Coming into force: 1st July 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 147, 160 and 165 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00001], and under section 37 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971[^f00002], as extended by section 156 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations shall come into force on 1st July 1992 and may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations 1992.

2

The Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972[^f00003] shall be amended—

• (a) in regulations 7(2), 9(1)(c)(i) and 10(3) by the substitution of the words “the sum for the time being specified in section 144(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988” for the words “the sum of fifteen thousand pounds in accordance with the provisions of section 144(1) of the Act”; and

• (b) in the Schedule by the substitution—

• (i) in Form E in Part 1, of the words “the sum for the time being specified in section 144(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988” for the words “the sum of fifteen thousand pounds”; and

• (ii) in paragraph 1 of Part 2, of the words “on a white background” for the words “on white paper or similar material”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kenneth Carlisle — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 3rd June 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make consequential amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972 following the bringing into force on 1st July 1992 of section 20 of the Road Traffic Act 1991. Section 20 amends section 144(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 by increasing, from fifteen to five hundred thousand pounds, the sum which a person must deposit and keep deposited with the Accountant General of the Supreme Court in order for the requirements of third-party insurance under section 143 of the 1988 Act not to apply to a vehicle owned by him, at a time when it is being driven under his control (regulation 2(a) and 2(b)(i)). Section 20 also amends section 144 to enable the Secretary of State to increase the sum of five hundred thousand pounds by order. In addition, the present requirement for motor insurance certificates to be produced on paper or similar material is relaxed to allow certificates to be produced on other material (regulation 2(b)(ii)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 52; Part VI was amended by sections 20 and 48 of, and paragraph 66 of Schedule 4 to, the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and section 165 was amended by paragraph 69 of that Schedule. The amendments were brought into force on 1st July 1992 by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1286 c. 42).

[^f00002]: 1971 c. 10.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1972/1217, as amended by S.I. 1973/1821, 1974/792, 1974/2187 and 1981/1567.