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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-international-circulation-amendment-order-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110493966",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-international-circulation-amendment-order-2004",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975 (“the principal Order”).\nArticle 3 of this Order amends the principal Order by increasing the fee for an international driving permit or an international certificate for motor vehicles from £4 to £5.50, although the increase does not apply if the application for the document is made before the coming into force of this Order.\nBy virtue of article 2 of the principal Order, persons resident outside Great Britain with an appropriate permit may drive motor vehicles when visiting Great Britain. Such permission is, however, restricted in respect of the driving of certain passenger-carrying and goods vehicles (the “restricted categories”). Persons resident outside Great Britain and certain territories (“specified territories”) may (with the appropriate driving permit) drive a vehicle in a restricted category only if it has been brought temporarily into Great Britain, whereas a person with the appropriate driving permit from one of the specified territories may drive any vehicle in a restricted category while in Great Britain.\nBy virtue of the amendment made by article 4(2)(c) of this Order, privately-operated passenger vehicles and medium-sized goods vehicles (the definitions of which are inserted in the principal Order by article 4(7)(b) of this Order) are added to the restricted categories of vehicles.\nArticle 4(3) substitutes a new paragraph for paragraph (2) of article 2 of the principal Order. This new paragraph provides for exceptions in respect of the driving of vehicles in either of the newly-specified restricted categories in favour of persons with the relevant driving permits. It does this by extending to those vehicles those exceptions (which are maintained) currently in place in respect of pre-existing restricted categories. Article 4(3) also provides (for the first time) for permit holders who are resident in Guernsey to drive in Great Britain any vehicle in a restricted category in respect of which his permit applies, i.e. Guernsey is now a specified territory for these purposes.\nArticle 4(5)(b) makes consequential provision in respect of the addition of Guernsey to the list of approved territories.\nThe amendments made by article 4 also remove from the principal Order all references to British Forces (BFG) driving licences. This removal is an acknowledgement that such licences no longer exist.\nSupplementary restrictions and conditions remain in relation to the driving of restricted vehicles in respect of age and driving disqualification.\nA full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Drivers Policy Group, Swansea Vale II, Swansea SA7 OEP.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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