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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-international-motor-insurance-card-regulations-1971/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/792",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971",
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  "text": "(1) An insurance card shall be valid for the purposes of these Regulations only if—\n(a) the motor vehicle specified in the card is brought into the United Kingdom during the period of validity so specified;\n(b) the application of the card in Great Britain is indicated thereon;\n(c) all relevant information provided for in the card has been inscribed therein;\n(d) the card has been duly signed by the visitor, by the insurer named in the card and, in the case of a hired motor vehicle, by every hiring visitor who is named in the card as the insured or user thereof; and\n(e) in the case of a card in the form of Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the card bears on page 1 thereof the name of the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, under whose authority the card was issued.\n(2) The information required to be inscribed in paragraphs 2, 7 and 8 in the page of the card shown in Schedule 1 to these Regulations and marked “original” and in paragraphs 2, 3 and 8 on page 3 of the card in the form in Schedule 2 to these Regulations is:—\n(a) in the said paragraph 2, the name of the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, under whose authority the card was issued; and\n(b) in the said paragraph 3 or 7, the name and address of the insured visitor and of every person who is, as respects a hired motor vehicle, a hiring visitor; and\n(c) in the said paragraph 8, the name and address of the insurer authorised to issue the card by the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, and by whom the card was issued.",
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