Department for Transport written question – answered at on 14 May 2024.
Theresa Villiers
Conservative, Chipping Barnet
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help ensure that users of electric bikes classed as a motorcycle or moped comply with legal requirements on (a) registration, (b) taxation, (c) holding a driving licence and (d) wearing a helmet; and whether he has had discussions with the (i) Secretary of State for the Home Department and (ii) individual police forces on enforcement of those requirements.
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
All electric bikes and similar vehicles that do not meet the requirements of the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Regulations (1983), as amended, are motor vehicles, and must fully comply with all of the normal requirements such as MOT, tax, insurance, helmets etc.
Enforcement is a matter for the police.
Yes4 people think so
No5 people think not
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