The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989

UK Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 2121 — creates 2 criminal offences.

2offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 16 November 1989
In force from: 23 November 1989
Extent: Not stated
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) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations further amend section 97 of the Transport Act 1968 which requires the installation and use of recording equipment in certain goods vehicles (regulation 2) and inserts a new section 97AA in that Act concerning the forgery of seals on such equipment (regulation 3). The amendments in regulation 2– a make it an offence to use, or cause or permit to be used, a vehicle to which section 97 applies if the recording equipment in the vehicle has been repaired otherwise than in accordance with the Community Recording Equipment Regulation as defined in section 97 as amended; b introduce a defence for a person charged with contravention of section 97 if he proves to the court that he neither knew nor ought to have known that the recording equipment had not be installed or repaired, as the case may be, in accordance with the Community Recording Equipment Regulation; and c increase from level 4 on the standard scale to level 5 the penalty on summary conviction for an offence under section 97. Regulation 3 introduces a new section 97AA which makes forgery, alteration or use, with intent to deceive, of a seal on recording equipment an offence. A person guilty of the offence is liable– a on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or b on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.

Offences created by this instrument

Forgery, etc of seals on recording equipment regulation 97AA · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Forgery, etc of seals on recording equipment regulation 97AA(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

What Parliament said about it

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Statutory Instruments, &C Commons · Commons Chamber · 26 July 1989
Ordered, That the draft Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.— [Mr. Sackville.]
Road Traffic Commons · Commons Chamber · 8 November 1989
That the draft Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989, which were laid before this House on 24th July, be approved.— [Mr. Greg Knight.]
Business Lords · Lords Chamber · 8 November 1989 · Lord Denham
My Lords, it may be for the convenience of the House if I announce that consideration of Commons Amendments to the Children Bill will be adjourned at about 7 p.m. for about one hour, and that during this adjournment the Committee stage of the Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment) Bill will be discharged and the Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989 will be taken.
Passenger And Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989 Lords · Lords Chamber · 8 November 1989
The noble Viscount said: My Lords, I beg to move that the draft Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989 be approved
Passenger And Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1989 Lords · Lords Chamber · 8 November 1989

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