
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Recovery Vehicles (Prescribed Purposes) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
2 
The purposes specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
8th December 1987
THE SCHEDULE
Regulation 2
1 
Repairing a disabled vehicle at the place where it became disabled or to which it has been moved in the interests of safety after becoming disabled.
2 
Drawing or carrying one trailer if the trailer was immediately before a vehicle became disabled, being drawn or carried by the disabled vehicle.