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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2123",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971 in consequence of the Finance Act 1987.\n2 Section 2 of the Finance Act 1987 amended the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 for the purpose of establishing recovery vehicles as a class of vehicles chargeable with a specific duty of excise.\n3 Previously, under section 16 of the 1971 Act a motor trader could take out a trade licence for all recovery vehicles kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business. As a result of the amendments made by the 1987 Act trade licences can no longer be taken out for a recovery vehicle kept for that purpose.\n4 Part V of the principal Regulations deals with trade licences. The amendments remove from Part V the provisions relating to recovery vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2123/note",
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  "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."
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