40Exemption—impairment of anti-pollution device for motor sport—Act, s 286

40 Exemption—impairment of anti-pollution device for motor sport—Act, s 286

40 Exemption—impairment of anti-pollution device for motor sport—Act, s 286

A person is exempt from the Act, section 157 if—

(a) the anti-pollution device fitted to the motor vehicle was impaired to facilitate the use of the vehicle for motor racing or off-road motor sport, and

(b) immediately before the device was impaired, and as a result of its construction, or prior modification, for use in motor racing or off-road motor sport, the vehicle was only capable of being registered conditionally, and

(c) the vehicle is to be used in that condition only in a competition, or during a journey to or from a motor racing or off-road motor sporting competition.

Note—

The Act, section 160(3)(c) provides for a defence to a prosecution for the offence under section 157 where the motor vehicle concerned is a motor racing or off-road motor sporting vehicle that is not of a kind capable of being registered within the meaning of the Road Transport Act 2013.