19 Failure to pay amount required in respect of void licence

19  Failure to pay amount required in respect of void licence

(1)     In subsection (1) of section 35A of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (offence of failing to return void licence)—

(a)     in paragraph (a), for the words from “requires” to “the notice” there shall be substituted “contains a relevant requirement”; and

(b)     in paragraph (b), for “within that period” there shall be substituted “contained in the notice”.

(2)     After subsection (2) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsections—

“(3)     For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), a relevant requirement is—

(a)     a requirement to deliver up the licence within such reasonable period as is specified in the notice; or

(b)     a requirement to deliver up the licence within such reasonable period as is so specified and, on doing so, to pay the amount specified in subsection (4).

(4)     The amount referred to in subsection (3)(b) is an amount equal to one-twelfth of the appropriate annual rate of vehicle excise duty for each month, or part

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