Regulation 7 Amendment of Schedule 2I1

Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows.

Sub-paragraph 1(f) shall be deleted.

After sub-paragraph 2(1) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(1A)

A vehicle may also be treated for the purposes of these regulations as a personally imported vehicle if—

(a)

a person, who is a serving member of the Armed Forces, intends to import it into the United Kingdom within 12 months of the date of application for a Minister’s approval certificate;

(b)

that person, at the time of that application, has been normally resident in a country other than the United Kingdom for a continuous period of at least 12 months; and

(c)

paragraphs (c) to (e) of sub-paragraph 2(1) apply to that person.”.

After sub-paragraph 2(5) there shall be inserted the following definition—

“(6)

In this paragraph—

• “serving member of the Armed Forces” means a person who is employed by Her Majesty’s air forces, Her Majesty’s military forces or Her Majesty’s naval forces; except that a serving member of any of the reserve forces shall not be included within this definition.”.

Paragraph 6 shall be deleted.