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Regulation 15 Information to be given relating to the disposal of a vehicle

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

For the purpose of section 101(7) of the 1984 Act, after a vehicle has been disposed of the authority by whom it was disposed of shall give information relating to the disposal of the vehicle—

(a)

if the vehicle carried a G.B. registration mark, to the Secretary of State for Transport, the chief officer of the police force in whose area is the place at which the vehicle appeared to have been abandoned (unless that officer is that authority), and H.P. Information Ltd.;

(b)

if the vehicle did not carry a G.B. registration mark but carried a mark indicating registration in Northern Ireland, to the chief officer of the police force in whose area is the place at which the vehicle appeared to have been abandoned (unless the authority is that officer), to the Secretary of State for Transport, to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and to H.P. Information Ltd.;

(c)

if the vehicle did not carry a G.B. registration mark but carried a mark indicating registration in the Republic of Ireland, to the Secretary of State for Transport, to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, to the chief officer of the police force in whose area is the place at which the vehicle appeared to have been abandoned (unless the authority is that officer), and to H.P. Information Ltd.;

(d)

if the vehicle did not carry a G.B. registration mark but carried a mark indicating registration in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any country not mentioned in the foregoing sub-paragraphs of this paragraph, to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, and to the chief officer of the police force in whose area is the place at which the vehicle appeared to have been abandoned (unless the authority is that officer);

(e)

if the vehicle did not carry a G.B. registration mark or any other registration mark, to the chief officer of the police force in whose area is the place at which the vehicle appeared to have been abandoned (unless the authority is that officer) and to the local authority in whose area is that place (unless the authority is that local authority).

For the purposes of this paragraph “local authority” means—

(i)

in relation to England, the council of a county, a metropolitan district or a London borough, or the Common Council of the City of London or an authority established under Section 10 of the Local Government Act 1985;

(ii)

in relation to Scotland, a regional or islands or district council; and

(iii)

in relation to Wales, the council of a district; and

(f)

in the case of any vehicle, to any person who appears to the authority to have been the owner of the vehicle immediately before it was disposed of.

(2)

In this regulation “information relating to the disposal of a vehicle” means—

(a)

any information which is sufficient to relate the information now being given to any information previously given to the same person in respect of the removal, storage or disposal of the vehicle;

(b)

such of the specified information as has not been previously given to the same person in respect of the removal, storage or disposal of the vehicle; and

(c)

information as to whether the vehicle was disposed of by destruction or by sale and if by sale the amount of the proceeds thereof.