Article 8 Issue of certificates of insurance

in paragraph (1), after the definition of “the Act”, insert—

• ““a certificate delivered by electronic means” means a certificate delivered as described in section 147(1A)(a) or (b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988;”; and

after paragraph (4), add—

“(5)

Any reference in these Regulations to the issue of a certificate of insurance shall be construed, in the case of a certificate delivered by electronic means, as a reference—

(a)

in the case of a certificate transmitted as described in section 147(1A)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, to its transmission in accordance with section 147(1B) of that Act;

(b)

in the case of a certificate made available as described in section 147(1A)(b) of that Act, to its being made available in accordance with section 147(1C) of that Act.”.