Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971
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1971 No. 792
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971
Made 10th May 1971
Laid before Parliament 20th May 1971
Coming into Operation 10th June 1971
The Secretary of State for the Environment in exercise of his powers under sections 211 and 215 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, and section 37(1) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 260(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1960, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on the 10th June 1971.
Revocation
2. The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 19691are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In these Regulations—
“” means ;
“” ;
“” means ;
“”, and “”, ;
“” means ;
“” means a motor vehicle which is:—
(a) designed for private use and with seats for not more than eight persons excluding the driver, and
(b) specified in an insurance card, and
(c) last brought into Great Britain by a person making only a temporary stay therein, and
(d) owned and let for hire by a person whose business includes the letting of vehicles for hire and whose principal place of business is outside the United Kingdom;
“” means ;
“” means an international motor insurance card issued under the authority of a Foreign Bureau or of the British Bureau which is green in colour and—
(a) ; or
(b) ;
“” means ;
“” ;
“” means .
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to any provision in an Act of Parliament or in subordinate legislation shall be construed as a reference to that provision as amended by any other such provision.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act these Regulations were an Act of Parliament and the Regulations revoked by Regulation 2 of these Regulations were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.
Validity of insurance card
4.—(1) An insurance card shall be valid for the purposes of these Regulations only if—
(a)
(a) the motor vehicle specified in the card is brought into the United Kingdom during the period of validity so specified;
(b)
(b) the application of the card in Great Britain is indicated thereon;
(c)
(c) all relevant information provided for in the card has been inscribed therein;
(d)
(d) the card has been duly signed by the visitor, by the insurer named in the card and, in the case of a hired motor vehicle, by every hiring visitor who is named in the card as the insured or user thereof; and
(e)
(e) in the case of a card in the form of Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the card bears on page 1 thereof the name of the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, under whose authority the card was issued.
(2) The information required to be inscribed in paragraphs 2, 7 and 8 in the page of the card shown in Schedule 1 to these Regulations and marked “original” and in paragraphs 2, 3 and 8 on page 3 of the card in the form in Schedule 2 to these Regulations is:—
(a)
(a) in the said paragraph 2, the name of the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, under whose authority the card was issued; and
(b)
(b) in the said paragraph 3 or 7, the name and address of the insured visitor and of every person who is, as respects a hired motor vehicle, a hiring visitor; and
(c)
(c) in the said paragraph 8, the name and address of the insurer authorised to issue the card by the Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, as the case may be, and by whom the card was issued.
Third-party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles by visitors
5.—(1) As respects the use on a road of a motor vehicle specified in a valid insurance card, being use by the visitor to whom the card was issued, or by any hiring visitor named therein, or by any other person on the order or with the permission of the said visitor or of any such hiring visitor, section 201 of the Act shall have effect as though the said card were a policy of insurance complying with the requirements of and having effect for the purposes of Part VI of the Act in relation to such use;
For the purposes of this paragraph a motor vehicle shall be deemed not to have left the United Kingdom whilst it is only in transit between different parts of the United Kingdom.
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