{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-third-party-risks-amendment-regulations-1974/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-third-party-risks-amendment-regulations-1974/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/792",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-third-party-risks-amendment-regulations-1974",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Regulation 7 of the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972 , as amended, provides that where a constable requires the production of evidence of insurance under section 162 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 there may be produced, in the case of a vehicle normally based in an EEC country other than the United Kingdom and Gibraltar, a document issued by the insurer of the vehicle showing certain particulars of the insurance, instead of an insurance certificate. These Regulations further amend Regulation 7 so as to apply the provision mentioned above in relation to vehicles normally based in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden or Switzerland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/792/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:40:08.566526+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."
}