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Regulation 15 Display of institutional badge when a vehicle is being drivenI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

This regulation prescribes for the purposes of section 21(4A) of the 1970 Act the circumstances in which an institutional badge may be displayed while a vehicle is being driven.

(2)

An institutional badge may be displayed on a vehicle while it is being driven by or on behalf of the holder and is carrying a disabled person.

(3)

An institutional badge may also be displayed on a vehicle while it is being driven by or on behalf of the holder and —

(a)

the vehicle is being used for the collection of a disabled person and for no other purpose;

(b)

a disabled person’s concession (other than a concession relating to parking) is available to a vehicle lawfully displaying a disabled person’s badge; and

(c)

it would not have been practicable for the vehicle to be lawfully driven to or to stop at the place at which the disabled person is to be collected if that concession did not apply to the vehicle.

(4)

An institutional badge may also be displayed on a vehicle while it is being driven by or on behalf of the holder and —

(a)

the vehicle, after carrying a disabled person, is leaving the place where the disabled person got off;

(b)

a disabled person’s concession (other than a concession relating to parking) is available to a vehicle lawfully displaying a disabled person’s badge; and

(c)

it would not have been practicable for the vehicle to have left that place if the concession had not applied to the vehicle.

Annotations

Commencement

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Reg. 15 in force at 1.7.2000, see reg. 1(1)