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The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (European Communities) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule or Order 1973 No. 448 — creates 2 criminal offences.

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0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
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Subject
Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport.) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations implement certain of the obligations arising out of the European Communities Council Directive of 24th April 1972 (O.J. No. L103/1, 2nd May 1972) relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and trailers. Regulation 3 amends section 77(1) of the Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, with the result that the compulsory motor vehicle insurance cover required under Part V of that Act is extended to include liabilities arising out of the use of a motor vehicle or trailer which are compulsorily insurable in the territories of the member states of the Communities. Regulation 4 makes a consequential amendment to the provision relating to securities. Regulation 5 makes it an offence to use vehicles exempted from the compulsory insurance requirements in Northern Ireland in the territory (other than Northern Ireland and Gibraltar) of a member state of the Communities without insurance cover valid for those states. Regulations 6 and 7 provide for the checking of the insurance cover of vehicles coming from non-member states from the non-European territory of member states or from Gibraltar and enable the use of such vehicles, if uninsured, to be prohibited in Northern Ireland. Regulation 8 removes, in respect of insurance policies issued elsewhere than in the United Kingdom for vehicles kept in member states other than the United Kingdom and Gibraltar the requirements that they should be issued by an insurer carrying on motor insurance business in Northern Ireland and that there should be issued a certificate in a prescribed form. Regulation 9 extends the duty in section 81(1) of the Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 to give information as to insurance or security where a claim is made to include the case where, although there is cover for the purposes of Part V of that Act, no certificate has been delivered; and applies the offence in section 150(2) of the Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 to documents produced as evidence of insurance under Regulation 6.

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