{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-regulations-1979/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-regulations-1979/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1088",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-regulations-1979",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The number shown outside and below the circle in any such marking will be varied, where appropriate, so as to be the number assigned by the competent authority of a Contracting State to distinguish the manufacturer of the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part concerned. The said number will be close to and outside the circle in such a position relative thereto as may be authorised by the relevant ECE Regulation, so however that it shall be read in the same direction as the number inside the circle.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 1.10.1979, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1088/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:13:45.791746+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."
}