{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/561",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-display-of-registration-marks-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Saving for vehicles constructed before 1st January 1973",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations a vehicle which was first registered on or after 1st January 1973 shall be treated as if it was first registered before that date if—\n(a) it is an exempt vehicle for the purposes of paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Act and was constructed on or before 1st January 1980, or\n(b) not being such a vehicle, it was constructed before 1st January 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(a) inserted (1.1.2021) by The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1363), regs. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A was inserted by the Finance act 1996, s. 19, and amended by the Finance Act 1998, s. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:10.069756+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."
}