{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-no-2-regulations-1973/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-no-2-regulations-1973/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2143",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) Regulations 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-no-2-regulations-1973",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Nothing in section 145(2) (policies to be issued by authorised insurers) and section 147(1) (policies to be of no effect unless certificates issued) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 shall apply in the case of an insurance policy which is issued elsewhere than in the United Kingdom in respect of a vehicle normally based in the territory ... of a member State of the European Union or of a relevant foreign state.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 substituted (27.5.1974) by The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1974 (S.I. 1974/791), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/551), regs. 1(1), 3(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.1.1974, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2143/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:56:00.995603+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."
}