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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2742",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-registration-and-licensing-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application for a vehicle licence on the basis that the reduced pollution requirements are satisfied",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made for a vehicle licence on the basis that the rate of vehicle excise duty applicable is a rate specified in one of the provisions of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act specified in paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may require the applicant to furnish a reduced pollution certificate before he determines the rate at which vehicle excise duty is payable on the licence.\n(2) The provisions of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) paragraph 3(1A) (buses);\n(b) paragraph 6(2A)(b) (vehicles used to carry exceptional loads);\n(c) paragraph 7(3A)(b) (haulage vehicles);\n(d) paragraph 9A (rigid goods vehicles); and\n(e) paragraph 11A (tractive units).\n(3) Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to reduced pollution certificates and the reduced pollution requirements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraphs 3(1A), 6(2A)(b), 7(3A)(b) and 9A of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act were inserted by the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36) Schedule 1 paragraphs 3(2), 6(2), 7(3), 9 and 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2742/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:59.749373+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."
}