# The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003, Regulation 3: Registration document


There shall be inserted after regulation 10—
“Registration document
10A. (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.
(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—
(a) dimensions;
(b) composition; and
(c) information contained within it;
except that in relation to a new registration document, the information contained may be limited to that available to the Secretary of State.
(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—
(a) the date on which the Secretary of State issues a new registration document under these Regulations; or
(b) 1st July 2005.
(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.
(5) Where the Secretary of State registers a vehicle in accordance with paragraph (4) he shall—
(a) retain the former registration document for not less than 6 months; and
(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3073/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003/regulation-3
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