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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/726",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 10th March 2000\nLaid before Parliament 13th March 2000\nComing into force 3rd April 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By the European Communities (Designation) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1811)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51), section 1(2) of that Act is amended to enable regulations to be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom arising under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and a Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th May 1994 (Cm 2183)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/726/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:54.295892+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."
}