The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2020/735 |
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 735
Road Traffic
The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made 9th July 2020
Laid before Parliament 14th July 2020
Coming into force in accordance wth regulation 1
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 160(1) and (2)(e) and 165(2)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 19881.
The Secretary of State has consulted with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
Citation, Commencement and Interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 4th August 2020.
(3) Regulations 4 and 8(c) come into force on IP completion day.
Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 1971
2. The Motor Vehicles (International Motor Insurance Card) Regulations 19712are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 7.
3. In regulation 3(1), for the definition of “insurance card”, substitute—
““Insurance card” means an international motor insurance card issued under the authority of a Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, which is—
(a) either green or white in colour,
(b) in printed form, no bigger than A4 in paper size, and
(c) in English or another language containing, in black typescript, the particulars specified in, and set out in one page as shown in, the Schedule to these Regulations;”.
4. In regulation 3(1), for the definition of “insurance card”, substitute—
““Insurance card” means an international motor insurance card issued under the authority of a Foreign Bureau or the British Bureau, which is—
(a) either green or white in colour, and
(b) in electronic form or in printed form no bigger than A4 in paper size, and
(c) in English or another language containing, in black typescript, the particulars specified in, and set out in one page as shown in, the Schedule to these Regulations;”.
5.—(1) Regulation 4 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) in sub-paragraph (c), for “inscribed therein;”, substitute “inserted therein; and”;
(b)
(b) in sub-paragraph (d)—
(i) omit “the visitor, by”,
(ii) omit “as the insured or user thereof; and”;
(c)
(c) omit sub-paragraph (e).
(3) In paragraph (2)—
(a)
(a) in the words before sub-paragraph (a)—
(i) for “inscribed”, substitute “inserted”,
(ii) for “7 and 8”, substitute “9 and 10”,
(iii) for “Schedule 1”, substitute “the Schedule”,
(iv) omit “and marked “original” and...
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