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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1366",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996 (“the Approval Regulations”) which come into force on 1st July 1997.\nRegulations 3, 4 and 5 correct errors made in the original text of the Approval Regulations.\nRegulation 6 provides for the replacement of a Minister’s approval certificate where an original has been lost or defaced.\nRegulation 7 postpones the date appointed for the purposes of section 63(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) from 1st July 1997 to 1st January 1998. The effect of this is twofold. Firstly it will be an offence, on or after 1st January 1998, to use a vehicle of a relevant class without the appropriate certificates in force under sections 54 to 58 of that Act. Secondly a licence under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 will not be granted in respect of a vehicle to which regulation 14 of the Approval Regulations applies unless, on the first application after 1st January 1998, evidence is produced that there is or are one or more certificates in force for the vehicle under sections 54 to 58 of the 1988 Act from which it appears that the vehicle complies with the approval requirements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1366/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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