Illegal window tint…

QrizB

TooManyPoints said:

I mean, English is not my native tongue, but it's quite simple to understand it..

Well, English is my native tongue and here's my take on it. The only C&U regulations which do not apply (to vehicles brought temporarily into GB) are listed in Column 3. So by default, all the others do apply.

Up to this point, you're correct. So what regulations are listed in Column 3?

Go ahead and read it again, carefully this time.

DanDare999

QrizB said:

TooManyPoints said:

I mean, English is not my native tongue, but it's quite simple to understand it..

Well, English is my native tongue and here's my take on it. The only C&U regulations which do not apply (to vehicles brought temporarily into GB) are listed in Column 3. So by default, all the others do apply.

Up to this point, you're correct. So what regulations are listed in Column 3?

Go ahead and read it again, carefully this time.

Maybe you should spell it out because your interpretation means they can run with bald tyres, defective steering and overweight free from prosecution. 

Manxman_in_exile

TooManyPoints said:

I mean, English is not my native tongue, but it's quite simple to understand it..

Well, English is my native tongue and here's my take on it. The only C&U regulations which do not apply (to vehicles brought temporarily into GB) are listed in Column 3. So by default, all the others do apply. Regulation 32 is not listed in column 3, so it is amongst "all the others". So it applies.

You're quite right about one thing - it really is quite simple to understand it.

English is my first language too, but I'm not certain this point is as simple to understand as you suggest...

The way I read it is that for the car* that is the subject of this thread, column 3 means that most of the regulations in Part II do not apply, except for regulations 7, 8, 9(2) etc... which do still apply. 

Because regulation 32 is not mentioned in that list of exceptions to the general point that the regulations in Part II do not apply, it must follow that regulation 32 does not apply to this vehicle.

I think that's the point @yessuz and @QrizB are trying to make and I can understand the logic of their argument.

But it seems a bit odd to me because that interpretation of the wording would mean that none of the regulations in Part II (apart from those in the list 7, 8, 9(2) etc... ) would apply to a vehicle brought into GB by a person resident abroad, and as @DanDare999 has suggested, that can't be right.  Can it? 

Quite happy to be corrected as it took me several readings of regulation 4 to understand what it was saying and I might well be wrong...

*  Is it certain that the car we're talking about falls under item 2?  It's not clear to me that the owner of the car is either (a) resident abroad, or (b) bringing the car into GB temporarily.  Sounds to me like they are resident here and the car is not here temporarily