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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 11

1954 c.9

11.(1) For the purposes of section 10, a vehicle in respect of which a
vehicle licence has been issued and sums are payable by virtue of that section
for any period shall, except so far as it is shown to have been a mechanically
propelled vehicle of some other description during that period, be deemed to
have belonged throughout that period to the description to which it belonged
on the date when the last such licence was issued in respect of it.

(2) When a vehicle in respect of which a notice has been given in pursuance of
section 10(2)(c) becomes a mechanically propelled vehicle, its keeper for the
time being shall forthwith give to the Ministry a further notice revoking the
first-mentioned notice; and, where a person required to give such a further
notice does not do so

(a)if he knowingly fails to give it, he shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #50; and

(b)in a case where he became the keeper of the vehicle after the
first-mentioned notice was given, it shall be deemed to have been revoked on
the date when he became the keeper of the vehicle, and, in any other case, the
first-mentioned notice shall be deemed not to have been given.

(3) The Ministry may by regulations make such provision as it considers
appropriate for the purposes of section 10(2)(b) or (c) or subsection (2) of
this section including, without prejudice to the generality of the power
conferred by this subsection, provision

(a)as to the form of, and particulars to be included in, a notice under those
provisions, the manner of giving such a notice and the time at which it is to
be treated as being given;

(b)for securing that notice under section 10(2)(b) is not given in respect of
a period of less than thirty days or more than twelve months;

(c)as to the mode of calculating the period in respect of which notice under
section 10(2)(b) is to be treated as given;

(d)with respect to the mode of proving the giving of notice;

(e)for deeming notice to have been given in relation to a vehicle in respect
of any period or at any time if, in the circumstances of any particular case,
the Ministry considers it reasonable to do so.

Continuous liability for duty.



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