The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2000

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

2.  The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(1) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph (2) of regulation 37 (audible warning instruments), after the words “other than a reversing alarm” shall be inserted the words “, a boarding aid alarm”;

(b) in paragraph (3) of regulation 37, after the words “A reversing alarm” shall be inserted the words “or a boarding aid alarm”;

(c) in paragraph (10) of regulation 37, the word “and” immediately after sub-paragraph (c) shall be deleted and there shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (d) the words

“; and

(e) “boarding aid alarm” means an alarm for a power operated lift or ramp fitted to a bus to enable wheelchair users to board and alight and designed to warn persons that the lift or ramp is in operation.”;

(d) in paragraph (2) of regulation 99 (use of audible warning instruments), at the end shall be inserted the words “or in respect of the sounding of a boarding aid alarm.”; and

(e) in paragraph (3) of regulation 99, after the words “on a road any reversing alarm” shall be inserted the words “or any boarding aid alarm”.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1078, to which the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/676.