{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-and-disposal-of-vehicles-regulations-1986/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/183",
  "legislation_title": "The Removal and Disposal of Vehicles Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-and-disposal-of-vehicles-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power of constable to remove vehicles",
  "text": "Except as provided by regulation 7 of these Regulations, where a vehicle—\n(a) is a vehicle to which regulation 3 of these Regulations applies, or\n(b) having broken down on a road or on any land in the open air, appears to a constable to have been abandoned without lawful authority, or\n(c) has been permitted to remain at rest on a road or on any land in the open air in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to appear to a constable to have been abandoned without lawful authority,\nthen, subject to the provisions of sections 99 and 100 of the 1984 Act, a constable may remove or arrange for the removal of the vehicle, and, in the case of a vehicle which is on a road, he may remove it or arrange for its removal from that road to a place which is not on that or any other road, or may move it or arrange for its removal to another position on that or another road.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2277",
      "affecting_title": "The Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2277",
      "affecting_title": "The Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2277",
      "affecting_title": "The Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/183/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:55:03.062763+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."
}