(1) Section 131 of the Finance Act 1992 is amended by substituting the following for subsection (5) (amended by section 100 of the Finance Act 2000):
(a) The Commissioners shall assign in the prescribed manner a unique identification mark to each vehicle entered in the register and, following the issue of a licence under section 1 of the Act of 1952, the Minister for the Environment and Local Government shall issue to the owner of each such vehicle a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a), a certificate of registration may be issued where a licence under the Act of 1952 is not issued and the Minister for the Environment and Local Government or a licensing authority, as appropriate, is satisfied that the vehicle has not or will not in the future be used in any public place within the meaning of section 64 of the Finance Act 1976.".
(2) This section comes into operation on such day as the Minister for Finance may appoi
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