{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2120",
  "legislation_title": "The Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recovery-vehicles-prescribed-purposes-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe, in regulation 2 and the Schedule, two purposes for which recovery vehicles may be used — in addition to the recovery or removal of disabled vehicles — without ceasing to be recovery vehicles for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, as added by the Finance Act 1987, Schedule 1, Part II.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2120/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:15:35.511517+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."
}