Wales On Sunday

No insurance for mowers

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VEHICLES such as ride-on lawnmowers and mobility scooters will not require motor insurance in Britain under a Government plan to ignore an item of EU legislatio­n.

Boris Johnson has previously described the extension of compulsory motor insurance to a wider range of vehicles on private land as “insane”.

The Vnuk law comes from a 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice and is named after a Slovenian man knocked off his ladder by a tractor trailer on a farm.

Work to implement Vnuk in Britain has been ongoing for several years, including a public consultati­on in 2016, but no timetable had been set.

Brexit means Britain can now bypass the law.

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