{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-and-disposal-of-vehicles-regulations-1986/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-and-disposal-of-vehicles-regulations-1986/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Manner of giving notice to occupier of land before removing a vehicle therefrom",
  "text": "For the purpose of section 99(3) of the 1984 Act, the manner in which the authority shall give notice to a person who appears to them to be an occupier of land on which there is a vehicle which the authority propose to remove, shall be as follows:—\n(1) the notice shall be given in the form set out in Schedule 2 hereto or a form substantially to the like effect;\n(2) the notice shall be addressed to the person who appears to be the occupier by name or by the description of “the occupier” of the land (describing it);\n(3) the notice shall be given—\n(a) by delivering it to the person who appears to be the occupier;\n(b) by leaving it at his usual or last known place of abode;\n(c) by sending it in a prepaid registered letter, or by the recorded delivery service, and addressed to him at his usual or last known place of abode;\n(d) if the person who appears to be the occupier is an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at their registered or principal office, or sending it in a prepaid registered letter, or by the recorded delivery service, addressed to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at that office; or\n(e) by sending it, marked clearly and legibly upon the notice and upon the envelope containing it with the words “Important This Communication affects your property”, to the land in a prepaid registered letter or by the recorded delivery service (providing the notice is not returned to the authority sending it), or by delivering it, so marked, to some person on the land, or by affixing it, so marked, to some object on the land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/183/regulation/8",
    "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."
}