# The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2013, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002.
Regulation 3 makes provision for first nil licences for vehicles to run from specified dates during a month. Such licences may run for a period of 12 months plus a further period commencing on the 10th, 17th or 24th day (as appropriate) of the month in which the licence first has effect.
Regulation 4 alters provisions relating to statutory off-road notifications. Schedule 4 is amended to remove the requirement to have to annually make a statutory off-road notification; once a statutory off-road notification is made it will have effect indefinitely, until such time as a vehicle licence or nil licence is taken out for that vehicle. In the event the vehicle keeper of an unlicensed vehicle is changed, and the new vehicle keeper wishes to keep the vehicle unlicensed, the new vehicle keeper will have to make a new statutory off-road notification.
An Impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on the website, www.legislation.gov.uk.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2909/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-amendment-regulations-2013/note
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