{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-international-circulation-amendment-order-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-international-circulation-amendment-order-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/993",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-international-circulation-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975 as amended. The principal effects of the Order are—\n(a) that visitors to Great Britain resident in a Member State of the European Economic Community holding specified visitors' driving permits may drive in Great Britain heavy goods vehicles and public service vehicles whether or not they have been brought temporarily into Great Britain (article 4);\n(b) to bring into force those amendments made to the 1975 Order as amended by the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 1980 which were not intended for implementation of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic 1968 when it comes into force for the United Kingdom (articles 2(3), 3 and 4); and\n(c) to increase the fees prescribed by Schedule 2 to the 1975 Order as amended for an international driving permit or an international certificate for motor vehicles from £2.50 to £3 (article 5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/993/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:13.819251+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."
}