1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 31st January 1975, and may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1974.

2. Regulation 7 of the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972(1) as amended(2) (production of evidence that a motor vehicle is not driven in contravention of insurance requirements) shall have effect as if in paragraph (4) for the words "Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden, or Switzerland," there were substituted the words "Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Norway, Sweden or Switzerland,".

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Regulation 7 of the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) Regulations 1972, as amended, provides that where a constable requires evidence of insurance under section 168 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 there may be produced in the case of a vehicle normally based in an EEC country other than the United Kingdom and Gibraltar or in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden or Switzerland, a document issued by the insurer of the vehicle instead of an insurance certificate. These Regulations further amend Regulation 7 so as to apply the provision mentioned above to vehicles normally based in Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic or Hungary.