Roads Act 1920

Clauses

• Required county councils to register all new vehicles and to allocate a separate number to each vehicle, in a continuation of the vehicle registration scheme introduced under the Motor Car Act 1903
• It clarified the situation regarding cars driven by internal combustion engines, replacing complex previous legislation for different types of vehicle.
• Provision for the collection and application of the excise duties on mechanically-propelled vehicles and on carriages.
• Creation of the Road Fund.

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