
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st July 1992.
2 
The following bodies are authorising bodies for the purposes of these Regulations, namely:—
 Amateur Motor Cycle Association Limited;
 Association of Rover Clubs Limited;
 the Auto-Club Union;
 the British Schoolboy Motorcycle Association;
 the International Organisation of Professional Drivers Limited;
 the National Autograss Sport Association Limited;
 NORA 92 Limited;
 National Traction Engine Trust;
 the Royal Automobile Club;
 Scottish Auto Cycle Union Limited; and
 Youth Motorcycle Sport Association (YMSA) Limited.
3 

(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, an authorising body may give an authorisation for a motoring event for the purposes of section 13A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 upon such conditions as it thinks fit.
(2) An authorisation for a motoring event given by an authorising body may be revoked by that body or by a person authorised by that body at any time before the event is held or while it is being held.
(3) Every authorisation for a motoring event must include a condition that the event must not be held:—
(a) unless written notice of the proposal to hold the event has been delivered in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (4) below to a police station in each police area in which it is intended that the event is to be held;
(b) other than at the place and during the period specified in each such notice.
(4) In order for a notice of a proposal to hold a motoring event to be delivered to a police station in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph, it must:—
(a) specify the name and address of the person (or of one of the persons) proposing to organise the event;
(b) specify the place where the event is intended to be held;
(c) specify the period during which the event is intended to be held stating in particular the date and time when the event is intended to begin; and
(d) be delivered to the police station at least 6 weeks before that date unless a shorter period is agreed by or on behalf of the chief officer of police for the police area in which the police station is situated.
4 

(1) A person applying to an authorising body for an authorisation for a motoring event shall pay to that body a fee of such amount as may be determined by that body.
(2) An authorising body may determine different fees for different classes of events and for events of the same class held in different circumstances.
5 
Regulation 3(3) shall not apply to an authorisation in so far as it authorises an event to be held during a period ending before 1st October 1992.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Kenneth Carlisle
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
3rd June 1992David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
9th June 1992James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
9th June 1992