{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-5-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-5-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3298",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-no-5-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Directive",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 3(1), after the definition of “bicycle” there shall be added—\n““the Directive” means Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles as amended by Commission Directive 2003/127/EC of 23 December 2003;”.\n(2) In regulation 10A—\n(a) in paragraph (1), there shall be added at the beginning “Subject to paragraph (1A),”;\n(b) after paragraph (1), there shall be added—\n“(1A) Paragraph (3A) applies to any vehicle registered under the 1994 Act or its predecessor legislation.”;\n(c) in paragraph (2), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;\n(d) in paragraph (3), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”;\n(e) after paragraph (3), there shall be added—\n“(3A) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Regulations, the Secretary of State may, without charge and on surrender by the registered keeper of a registration document issued before 31st January 2004, issue to the registered keeper a registration document which is in a form provided for by the Directive in respect of the same vehicle if it appears proper and reasonable to him to do so.”; and\n(f) in paragraph (4), for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC” there shall be substituted “the Directive”.\n(3) In regulation 27A, for “Council Directive 1999/37/EC on the registration documents for vehicles” there shall be substituted “the Directive”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L.138, 1.6.1999, p. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L.10, 16.1.2004, p. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3298/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:19.166669+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."
}