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Creative and design by Fire Creative (07795 030885) FBHVCnews Issue 2, 2021 3 201218-PJI-FBHVC-A4-297x210-complete-cover.indd 1 21/12/2020 12:05 Legislation Lindsay Irvine Introduction The curse of 24 hour news I am sorry your hopes were dashed. MOT inspector’s Manual which I cover is brought home during a With a final deal emerging just before briefly below (with a link to previous Christmas and the modalities of detailed FBHVC advice on this tricky topic). pandemic lockdown – endlessly implementation on Government websites On environmental issues, following on repetitive depressing stories “unfinished” by the first thing January from coverage in the last Newsletter of often designed to stoke up more deadline, there was no time to absorb the the Scottish Government’s publication angst, anger and conflict to 1246 pages of the Agreement. Thankfully of the fruits of its consultation on Low the FBHVC website news updates are there Emission Zones, I provide an update on retain viewers and fill the day. to do the “breaking news” and caught up the draft subordinate legislation making The corollary of that curse is the with reassurances on VAT rates for historic its way through the Scottish Parliament. benefit that the news is kept vehicle imports and less welcome news on I also mention again the Oxford ZEZ up to date, unconstrained by the additional bureaucracy and expense Consultation in the context of our of the temporary export of a vehicle to response in January and explain some editorial and printing deadlines. the continent on a trailer. One benefit of fairly well trodden issues in relation to the That time lag means that as a pandemic is that there is more time to expanding London ULEZ. Finally taking you read the last newsletter consider these new processes as actually inspiration from what used to be quaintly putting them into practice for leisure, called the post bag, I describe another which came out in February, you racing or exhibiting our prized possession interesting issue on what in far off days might have flicked through it is a little way off.