Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/97
Timestamp: 2019-10-24 05:51:21
Document Index: 79525657

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 3', 'art. 3']

s. 97 heading words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 4(a)
s. 97(1)(b) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(3)
s. 97(1)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(2)(c)
s. 97(1A) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(3)
s. 97(2) words omitted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 4(c)
s. 97(2) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(3)
s. 97(3)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(4)
s. 97(4)(c) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(5)
s. 97(4A)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(6)(a)
s. 97(4A)(c) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(6)(b)
s. 97(5) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(8)
s. 97(6) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 4(d)
s. 97(6) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(9)
s. 97(7) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 4(e)(i)
s. 97(7) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(a)
s. 97(7) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(c)
s. 97(7) words inserted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(e)
s. 97(7) words omitted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(b)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2010/892 reg. 3(2)(a)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2016/248 reg. 4(10)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 4(e)(ii)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(d)(i)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(d)(ii)
s. 97(7) words substituted by S.I. 2019/453 reg. 35(5)(d)(iii)
[F197 Installation and use of recording equipment.E+W+S
[F2(1)No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, a vehicle to which this section applies
[F3(a)unless there is in the vehicle recording equipment which—
(ii)complies with [F4the relevant Annexes] to that Regulation; and
(iii)is being used as provided by [F5Articles 13 to 15] of that Regulation;][F6, or]
[F6(b)in which there is recording equipment which has been repaired (whether before or after installation) otherwise than in accordance with the Community Recording Equipment Regulation;]
and any person who contravenes this subsection shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F7level 5] on the standard scale.]
[F8(1A)A person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (1) of this section if he proves to the court that he neither knew nor ought to have known that the recording equipment had not been installed or repaired, as the case may be, in accordance with the Community Recording Equipment Regulation.]
(2)A person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (1) [F9(a)] of this section if he proves to the court that the vehicle in question was proceeding to a place where recording equipment which would comply with the requirements of [F10substitute “the relevant Annexes to] of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation was to be installed in the vehicle in accordance with that Regulation.
(3)A person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (1) [F9(a)] of this section by reason of the recording equipment installed in the vehicle in question not being in working order if he proves to the court that—
(b)the requirements of [F11Article 16(2)] of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation were being complied with.
(4)A person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (1) [F9(a)] of this section by reason of any seal on the recording equipment installed in the vehicle in question not being intact if he proves to the court that—
(c)in all other respects the equipment was being used as provided by [F12Articles 13 to 15] of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation.
[F13(4A)A person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (1)(a) of this section by reason of the driver card not being used with the recording equipment installed in the vehicle in question if he proves to the court that—
(5)For the purposes of this section recording equipment is used as provided by [F12Articles 13 to 15] of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation if, and only if, the circumstances of its use are such that each requirement of those Articles is complied with.
(6)This section applies at any time to any vehicles to which this Part of this Act applies if, at that time, Article 3 of the Community Recording Equipment Regulation requires recording equipment to be installed and used in that vehicle; and in this section and [F14sections 97B to 97G] of this Act any expression which it is also used in that Regulation has the same meaning as in that Regulation.
[F15[F16“the Community Recording Equipment Regulation”means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport F17 as it has effect in accordance with—
Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3314/90F18;
Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3688/92F19; F20...
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2479/95F21;
[F22Commission Regulation (EC) 1056/97;
and as read with the Community Drivers’ Hours and Recording Equipment (Exemptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 1986 F23;]
[F24“the relevant Annexes” to the Community Recording Equipment Regulation —
F2S. 97(1) substituted by S.I. 1984/144, reg. 2(1)
F3By S.I. 1989/2121, art. 2(2) it is provided that in s. 97(1) the words from “unless" to the end of paragraph (c) shall become paragraph(a), with paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) becoming sub-paragraphs “(i)", “(ii)" and “(iii)" of that paragraph
F4Words in s. 97(1)(a)(ii) substituted (5.8.2005) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1904), regs. 1(1), 2(2)
F5Words substituted by S.I. 1986/1457, reg. 3(3)(a)
F6S. 97(1)(b) and word “or" preceding it inserted by S.I. 1989/2121, art. 2(2)
F7Words substituted by S.I. 1989/2121, art. 2(2)
F8S. 97(1A) inserted by S.I. 1989/2121, art. 2(3)
F9 “(a)" inserted by S.I. 1989/2121, art. 2(4)
F10Words in s. 97(2) substituted (5.8.2005) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1904), regs. 1(1), 2(3)
F11Words substituted by S.I. 1986/1457, reg. 3(3)(b)
F12Words substituted by S.I. 1986/1457, reg. 3(3)(a)
F13S. 97(4A) inserted (5.8.2005) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1904), regs. 1(1), 2(4)
F14Words in s. 97(6) substituted (5.2.2008) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Downloading and Retention of Data) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/198), regs. 1(1), 4(b)
F15Definition substituted by S.I. 1986/1457, reg. 3(1)(2)(a)
F16S. 97(7) substituted (25.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/941, art. 3(1)(2)(a)
F17O.J. No. L370, 31.12.85, p.8.
F18O.J. No. L318, 17.11.90, p.20.
F19O.J. No. L374, 22.12.92, p.12.
F20Word in s. 97(7) omitted (5.8.2005) by virtue of The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1904), regs. 1(1), 2(6)
F21O.J. No. L256, 26.10.95, p.8.
F22Words in s. 97(7) inserted (5.8.2005) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1904), regs. 1(1), 2(7)
F23S.I. 1986/1456; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/805 and S.I. 1988/760.
F24Words in s. 97(7) substituted (1.5.2006) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Fitting Date) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1117), regs. 1, 2
C1S. 97 applied (with modifications) (S.) (4.1.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 40(7); S.I. 1994/2850, art. 3(a), Sch. 2