{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-insurance-requirements-immobilisation-removal-and-disposal-regulations-2011/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-insurance-requirements-immobilisation-removal-and-disposal-regulations-2011/regulation-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Removal of vehicles",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where an authorised person has reason to believe that an offence under section 144A of the 1988 Act—\n(a) is being committed as regards a vehicle which is stationary on a road or other public place, or\n(b) was being committed as regards a vehicle at the time when an immobilisation device which is fixed to the vehicle was fixed to it in accordance with these Regulations and the conditions prescribed in paragraph (2) are fulfilled.\n(2) The conditions are—\n(a) 24 hours have elapsed since the device was fixed to the vehicle, and\n(b) the vehicle has not been released in accordance with these Regulations.\n(3) In a case where this regulation applies, the authorised person or a person acting under the authorised person’s direction, may remove the vehicle and deliver it to a person authorised by the Secretary of State to keep vehicles so removed (“the custodian”).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 16.5.2011, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1120/regulation/9",
    "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."
}