
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 17th September 1999.
2 
The Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 
After regulation 9(3) there shall be inserted—“
(4) A person applying for a vehicle licence for a vehicle under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 shall not be required to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) if—
(a) on the date when the licence is to come into operation there will be in force the necessary policy in relation to the use of the vehicle by the applicant or by other persons on his order or with his permission;
(b) the policy has been issued by an insurer which has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of State for the purposes of this paragraph of this regulation;
(c) in pursuance of that agreement the insurer has either—
(i) made available for inspection by the Secretary of State an electronic data base maintained by it, on which there are recorded sufficient particulars of the policy to enable the Secretary of State to satisfy himself that condition (a) is satisfied; or
(ii) confirmed to the Secretary of State that condition (a) is satisfied.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Gus Macdonald
Parliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
26th August 1999