The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made: 6th April 2017

Laid before Parliament: 11th April 2017

Coming into force: 6th May 2017

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Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Ahmad of Wimbledon — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 2017-04-06

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”) in relation to the disclosure of information from the register of vehicles and their keepers maintained by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on behalf of the Secretary of State under section 21 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.

These Regulations implement Directive (EU) 2015/413 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 68, 13.3.15, p.9) facilitating cross-border exchange of information on road safety related traffic offences.

Regulation 3implements the Directive by inserting new regulation 27B into the 2002 Regulations. New regulation 27B provides that, in order to facilitate the investigation by another Member State of a road safety related traffic offence to which the Directive applies committed in that Member State using a vehicle registered in the UK, the Secretary of State must make available to the Member State the identity of the registered keeper of the vehicle (and certain other information) from the statutory register of vehicles and their keepers maintained by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

It designates the Secretary of State as the national contact point for the UK, pursuant to Article 4(2) of the Directive, to receive and process requests for such information from other Member States and to request and receive corresponding information in relation to such offences committed in the UK using vehicles registered in other Member States.

An Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum and a Transposition Note are published alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

The Directive referred to above is published at http://eur-lex.europa.eu.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3) and the Schedule, Part 1.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1998/2793.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2002/2742, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00004]: Regulation 27A was inserted by S.I. 2003/3073.

[^f00005]: OJ No L 68, 13.3.2015, p.9.

Editorial notes

[^key-a66de972b04f95be6fef28df867e2262]: Regulations revoked (31.12.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1361), regs. 1(2)(a), 3