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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-england-amendment-no2-regulations-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2675",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-england-amendment-no2-regulations-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nA disabled person’s badge (known as a “Blue Badge”) enables the holder to benefit from a range of parking concessions and exemptions from certain charges which apply to other motorists. The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000 (“the Principal Regulations”) make provision regarding the issue of the badges by local authorities.\nThese Regulations amend the Principal Regulations, principally, by requiring that the design and manufacture of badges must comply with substantially more sophisticated technical requirements, designed to mitigate the risk of forgery.\nOther amendments include the imposition of a requirement to obtain an independent mobility assessment as a condition of eligibility in certain circumstances; raising the maximum fee that local authorities may charge for the issue of badges from £2 to £10; and enabling local authorities to refuse to issue or to withdraw badges following a single conviction under legislation used to prosecute misuse of badges.\nAn impact assessment of the effect that the amendments will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Blue Badge Administration Division at the Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2675/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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