{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-and-driving-licences-records-evidence-regulations-1970/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-and-driving-licences-records-evidence-regulations-1970/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1997",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle and Driving Licences Records (Evidence) Regulations 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-and-driving-licences-records-evidence-regulations-1970",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Matters prescribed for s. 27(3) of the Act",
  "text": "The following matters are prescribed for the purposes of section 27(3) of the Act—\n(1) in connection with the licensing of drivers under Part II of the Road Traffic Act 1960—\n(a) a document being, forming part of, or submitted in connection with, an application for a driving licence;\n(b) a driving licence;\n(c) a certificate of competence to drive;\n(d) the conviction of an offence specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic Act 1962 or of an offence treated as so specified by virtue of section 5 of the Road Safety Act 1967 of any person or any order made by the Court as a result of any such conviction;\n(2) in connection with the licensing and registration of mechanically propelled vehicles under the 1962 Act—\n(a) a document being, forming part of, or submitted in connection with, an application for—\n(i) a vehicle licence;\n(ii) a trade licence;\n(iii) a repayment of duty under section 9 of the 1962 Act or the recovery of underpayments or overpayments of duty under section 11 of that Act;\n(b) a vehicle licence, trade licence, registration book or registration mark;\n(c) a document containing a declaration and particulars such as are prescribed under the 1962 Act in relation to vehicles exempted from duty under that Act;\n(d) the conviction of an offence under the 1962 Act of any person;\n(3) in connection with the examination of a goods vehicle under regulations under section 9 of the Road Safety Act 1967—\n(a) an application for an examination of a vehicle under the said regulations;\n(b) a notifiable alteration made to a vehicle and required by the said regulations to be notified to the Secretary of State;\n(c) a plating certificate, goods vehicle test certificate, notification of the refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate, Ministry plate, Ministry test date disc or certificate of temporary exemption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2742",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1997/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:51:05.358414+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."
}