{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111179192",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent, interpretation and savings",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and come into force on exit day.\n(2) Regulations 2 and 3 extend to England and Wales and Scotland only. Regulations 5 and 6 extend to Northern Ireland only.\n(3) In these Regulations, “the 2003 Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Information Centre and Compensation Body) Regulations 2003.\n(4) Where a court in any part of the United Kingdom was seised before exit day of legal proceedings against MIB under regulation 11 or 13 of the 2003 Regulations, regulations 2, 10, 11, 12(3) to (5), 13 and 16 of those Regulations shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not been made and as if the United Kingdom remained a member State of the European Union.\n(5) In this regulation a court shall be deemed to be seised—\n(a) at the time when the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document is lodged with the court, provided that the applicant has not subsequently failed to take the steps the applicant was required to take to have service effected on the respondent; or\n(b) if the document has to be served before being lodged with the court, at the time when it is received by the authority responsible for service (being the first authority receiving the document to be served), provided that the applicant has not subsequently failed to take the steps the applicant was required to take to have the document lodged with the court.\n(6) In this regulation—\n(a) references to “applicant” include “claimant” or “pursuer”, and references to “respondent” include “defendant” or “defender”;\n(b) “MIB” means the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (a company limited by guarantee and incorporated under the Companies Act 1929 on 14th June 1946).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/37, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111179192/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:01:30.294244+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}