{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3073",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Registration document",
  "text": "There shall be inserted after regulation 10—\n“Registration document\n10A. (1) This regulation applies to vehicles falling within the definition of “vehicle” in Article 2 of Council Directive 70/156/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type approval of motor vehicles and their trailers and in Article 2 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheeled motor vehicles.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall not issue a new registration document on or after 31st January 2004 unless it complies with Annex I of Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles as regards—\n(a) dimensions;\n(b) composition; and\n(c) information contained within it;\nexcept that in relation to a new registration document, the information contained may be limited to that available to the Secretary of State.\n(3) Any registration document which does not comply with Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles shall cease to have effect on the earlier of—\n(a) the date on which the Secretary of State issues a new registration document under these Regulations; or\n(b) 1st July 2005.\n(4) In registering for the first time on or after 1st June 2004 a vehicle, which has been registered in another member State or Gibraltar, the Secretary of State shall recognise as a registration document a document which has been issued in respect of that vehicle by that other member State or Gibraltar if it complies with Annex I or Annexes I and II of Council Directive 1999/37/EC.\n(5) Where the Secretary of State registers a vehicle in accordance with paragraph (4) he shall—\n(a) retain the former registration document for not less than 6 months; and\n(b) within 2 months of registration in the United Kingdom, notify the authorities in the member State or in Gibraltar where the vehicle was previously registered of his act of registration.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 42, 32.2.1970, p. 1; the Directive was last amended by Commission Directive 98/14/EC (OJ No. L 91, 25.3.1998, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 225, 10.8.92, p. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L 138, 1.6.1999, p. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3073/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:43:47.355556+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."
}