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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1193",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Road Traffic\nMade 6th December 2016\nLaid before Parliament 9th December 2016\nComing into force 31st December 2016\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State is 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1193/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:19.036790+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."
}