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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 14

Issue and exhibition of licences.

14.(1) The Ministry may by regulations make such provision as it considers
appropriate with respect to the allocation of temporary licences to
motor dealers who apply for such allocations and appear to the Ministry
suitable to receive them, and with respect to the issue of the licences by
motor dealers.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under
this section may include provision

(a)as to the mode of application for the allocation of licences and as to the
fees payable in respect of allocations;

(b)specifying the categories of vehicles for which allocations of licences may
be made;

(c)prohibiting the issue of temporary licences in pursuance of applications
for trade licences or seven day licences;

(d)for requiring a motor dealer to pay to the Ministry, in respect of each
licence allocated to the dealer, the excise duty chargeable in respect of the
licence which will be specified in the application in consequence of which the
allocated licence can be issued;

(e)as to the replacement of allocated licences which are lost, damaged or
destroyed and as to the fees payable in connection with their replacement; and

(f)as to the transfer of licences allocated to a motor dealer in cases where
the dealer dies or becomes incapacitated or bankrupt and in such other cases
as may be prescribed.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under
this section may also include provision for

(a)requiring a motor dealer to whom an allocation of licences is made to keep
a record in the prescribed form of the licences allocated to him and of the
licences issued by him, and to permit the record to be inspected at all
reasonable times by any officer of the Ministry and any member of the Royal
Ulster Constabulary;

(b)restricting the circumstances in which a motor dealer may issue licences;

(c)requiring a motor dealer, before he issues a temporary licence in respect
of a vehicle

(i)to obtain from the proposed holder of the licence an application for a
vehicle licence in the prescribed form;

(ii)to ascertain that the prescribed requirements as to prescribed
certificates and insurance are satisfied in respect of the vehicle;

<(iii)to ensure that the temporary licence is appropriate for the vehicle and takes effect on the prescribed date; and


<(iv)to make on the temporary licence, and on any copy of it specified in the regulations, such entries as the Ministry may determine;


(d)requiring a motor dealer by whom a temporary licence is issued to deliver
or despatch to the Ministry, within the prescribed period beginning with and
including the day on which the dealer issues the licence, the prescribed
particulars and documents relating to the licence and the vehicle for which it
is issued; and

(e)securing that after any change takes effect in the rate of excise duty
chargeable in respect of a vehicle licence of any description, a
temporary licence previously allocated to a dealer is not issued by him in
consequence of an application for a vehicle licence of that description, but
that a temporary licence issued in contravention of regulations made in
pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not be invalid
by reason only of the contravention.


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