Explanatory note

Section 27 of the Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969 provides that a statement contained in certain documents duly authenticated and purporting to be inter alia part of the records maintained by the Secretary of State for the Environment or certain local authorities in connection with vehicle and driving licences or by the Secretary of State with respect to vehicles shall be admissible in civil or criminal proceedings as evidence of any fact stated therein, to the same extent as oral evidence of that fact would be admissible. These Regulations prescribe the matters in respect of which evidence may be given in this way.

The matters concerned are those documents and other things (as specified in Regulation 3) relating to the licensing of drivers under Part II of the Road Traffic Act 1960, the licensing and registration of mechanically propelled vehicles under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962 and the examination of goods vehicles under section 9 of the Road Safety Act 1967.