Regulation 17 Vehicles used for the purposes of the Crown, the police and civil defence

an application by a public or local authority in respect of a vehicle intended by that authority to be used by them for the purposes of civil defence (within the meaning of the Civil Defence Act 1948^f1), or

an application by a public or local authority in respect of a vehicle intended to be used for police purposes, or

an application in respect of a vehicle to which sections 63, 65 and 65A of the 1988 Act or Articles 31E and 31G of the 1981 Order have become applicable after a period of use on roads during which, by virtue of section 183(2) of the 1988 Act or Article 214 of the 1981 Order (which relate to vehicles in the service of the Crown) those sections or Articles did not apply to it.