The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975

UK Statutory Instrument 1975 No. 1208 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

23 July 1975

In force from

2 August 1975

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Road traffic and vehicles

Made under

Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Act 1952

Explanatory note

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

1. The Order gives effect to certain provisions of the following international agreements, namely:— the Convention on Road Traffic of 1949 (Cmd 7997); the Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private Use in International Traffic of 1956 (Cmnd 220); the Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Passenger Traffic of 1956 (Cmnd 320); the Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Goods Transport of 1956 (Cmnd 4206); the Convention on Motor Traffic of 1926 (Cmd 3510); Article IV of the Agreement regarding the Status of Forces of Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty (Cmd 8279); a Decision of the Council of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation adopted on 28 June 1957, relating to identification marks for hired chauffeur-driven vehicles going abroad from the United Kingdom. 2. The Order re-enacts with amendment and consolidates the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1957 (S.I. 1957/1074) and the subsequent Orders amending it; and following the transfer to the Secretary of State of functions exercisable in Northern Ireland with respect to vehicle excise duty and the registration of vehicles by the Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments—No. 1) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/2163), it revokes and re-enacts with amendment corresponding provisions to those having effect in Great Britain with respect to those matters in Northern Ireland in place of the Northern Ireland Orders revoked thereby. 3. The Order relates to:— the issue of international driving permits to persons going abroad and documents for use outside the United Kingdom with vehicles; driver licensing, vehicle operators' licences and vehicle lighting requirements in relation to vehicles brought temporarily into Great Britain; and registration and exemption from vehicle excise duty of vehicles brought temporarily into the United Kingdom. 4. The principal changes introduced by the Order are that— the fees for international driving permits and certificates for motor vehicles are increased from £1.00 to £1.50 (Schedule 2); vehicles temporarily imported into Northern Ireland by members of visiting forces or the civilian components of such forces are brought within the scope of exemption from vehicle excise duty (Article 5A(2)); vehicles registered in the Isle of Man and temporarily imported into Northern Ireland are exempted from vehicle excise duty (Article 5A(3)) in the manner similarly prescribed for such vehicles temporarily imported into Great Britain (Article 5(3)).

Offences created by this instrument

• SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

• Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 2013 Lords · Grand Committee · 12 November 2013 · The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Kramer) (LD)

  My Lords, the order will allow car transporters to carry out unlimited cabotage operations in Great Britain during the peak registration periods. Road haulage cabotage is domestic goods operations carried out on a temporary basis by haulage operators registered in another EU member state. EU Regulation 1072/2009 revised the previous EU rules governing road haulage cabotage with the intention of clarifying the minimum extent to which carrying out cabotage in another member state is allowed. Translated into domestic law, this results in non-UK goods vehicles being limited to carrying out no…

• Draft Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 Commons · General Committees · 30 January 2019 · Jesse Norman

  My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to ask that question—as he can imagine, it was the first question that I and officials asked. It is not possible in law because of the nature of the conventions and the relationships they bear to one another. We are fettered by the way in which the international structure of those conventions works. I would like nothing better than to have a consolidated format that could be applied for, but unfortunately it is simply not possible because of the way the treaties work. The changes made by this statutory instrument will provide certainty for UK…

• Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 Lords · Lords Chamber · 12 February 2019 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Sugg) (Con)

  My Lords, this draft order will be made under the powers conferred by the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Act 1952 and is needed in all EU exit scenarios—thus differing from many of the SIs we have discussed—as the UK has ratified the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. The order amends the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975, which sets out the powers of the Government to issue international driving permits—IDPs—to ensure that UK motorists can exercise their international legal right to drive overseas. As I have said before, the best outcome for the UK is to…

• Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting) Commons · Public Bill Committees · 5 January 2022 · Helen Whately

  Clauses 78 and 79 relate to the taxation of heavy goods vehicles. Clause 78 relates to cabotage, which is the transport of goods between two places in the same country by a transport operator from another country for the purposes of hire and reward. Cabotage is restricted both in the UK and abroad. In recent months, shortages of lorry drivers have been associated with problems with the distribution of food and other essential goods, and there have been representations to allow increased levels of cabotage. The number of professional UK-resident drivers is estimated to have fallen by about…

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