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Vehicles (Crime) Bill

This is the text of the Vehicles (Crime) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 7th December 2000

 
EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Home Office, are published separately as Bill 1- EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Straw has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Vehicles (Crime) Bill are compatible with the Convention rights.

 
  
Vehicles (Crime) Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I
REGULATION OF MOTOR SALVAGE OPERATORS
Registration
Clause 
1.Requirement of registration for motor salvage operators.
2.Registers of motor salvage operators.
3.Applications for registration and renewal of registration.
4.Cancellation of registration.
5.Right to make representations.
6.Appeals.

Keeping of records etc.
7.Keeping of records.
8.Notification of destruction of motor vehicles.

Supplementary provisions and offences
9.Rights to enter and inspect premises.
10.Notification requirements.
11.Offence of giving false particulars on sale for salvage.

General
12.Application of "fit and proper" test to companies etc.
13.Proceedings for offences under Part I.
14.Power to amend or repeal private or local Acts.
15.Interpretation of Part I.

PART II
REGULATION OF REGISTRATION PLATE SUPPLIERS
Registration
16.Requirement of registration for registration plate suppliers.
17.Register of registration plate suppliers.
18.Applications for registration.
19.Suspension of registration by a court.
20.Cancellation of registration by the Secretary of State.
21.Right to make representations: Part II.
22.Appeals: Part II.

Keeping of records etc.
23.Keeping of records: Part II.
24.Provision of information on sale of registration plates.

Supplementary provisions and offences
25.Rights to enter and inspect premises: Part II.
26.Notification requirements: Part II.
27.Offences relating to counterfeit registration plates.
28.Offence of supplying plates etc. to unregistered persons.

General
29.Proceedings for offences under Part II.
30.Interpretation of Part II.

PART III
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO VEHICLE CRIME
Vehicle licensing and registration
31.Provision of documents etc. on vehicle licence applications.
32.Issue of new registration documents: vehicle identity checks etc.
33.Imposition of requirements concerning registration plates.

Information requirements
34.Notification by scrap metal dealers of destruction of motor vehicles.
35.Access to certain motor insurance information.

Miscellaneous
36.Taking a conveyance without authority: extension of prosecution time-limits.
37.Funding of certain magistrates' courts' costs relating to vehicle crime.

PART IV
SUPPLEMENTARY
General
38.Offences by bodies corporate.
39.Service of notices.
40.Orders and regulations under this Act.
41.General financial provision.
42.Consequential amendments.

Final
43.Commencement.
44.Extent.
45.Short title.

SCHEDULES:
    -Consequential amendments.
 


 
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