{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-insurance-requirements-immobilisation-removal-and-disposal-regulations-2011/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1120",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Insurance Requirements) (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-insurance-requirements-immobilisation-removal-and-disposal-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Other offences connected with immobilisation",
  "text": "(1) Where these Regulations would apply to a vehicle but for the provisions of regulation 4(1) and (2)(a) and the vehicle was not, at the time it was stationary, being used—\n(a) in accordance with regulations under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, and\n(b) in circumstances falling within section 117(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (use where a disabled person’s concession would be available),\nthe person in charge of the vehicle at that time is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 16.5.2011, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c.44; section 21 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), section 272(1) and Schedule 30, the Transport Act 1982 (c.49), section 68, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c.27), section 146 and Schedule 13, paragraph 11, the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), section 8 and Schedule 5, paragraph 1, the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), section 35(1) to (5) and Schedule 8, paragraph 1, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), Schedule 10, paragraph 8 and Schedule 18, the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 86, the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp.2), section 73, the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c.18), section 94(1) to (4), the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c.13), Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 41, the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp.12), section 49 and the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c.15), Schedule 8, paragraph 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c.27; section 117(1) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), section 35(6), the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c.18), section 94(5) and the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c.13), Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraphs 42 and 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1120/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:08:52.539626+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."
}