The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009

6.—(1) The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation: general)(2), after paragraph (3), insert—

“(4) Any reference in these Regulations (however expressed) to the Framework Directive is to be construed as a reference to that Directive read (insofar as is possible) as though—

(a) the United Kingdom were a member State;

(b) the Secretary of State were the approval authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of that Directive.”.

(3) In regulation 25 (grant of national small series type approval)(3)—

(a) for paragraph (2), substitute—

“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)—

(a) the alternative requirements required to be laid down under Article 23(1) are the technical or other requirements specified in Schedule 4; and

(b) Article 23 of the Framework Directive is to be read as though paragraphs 6 and 7 were omitted.”;

(b) omit paragraphs (4) and (5);

(c) after paragraph (12), insert—

“(13) During the period beginning with exit day and ending with 31st December 2019, Table 1 and Table 2 in paragraph (12) are to be read as though each of the figures shown in column (2) of those tables were multiplied by a factor of two.”.

(1)

S.I. 2009/717, as amended by S.I. 2011/1043 and 1946, 2013/602 and 2018/235, 236 and 673.

(2)

Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 2011/1043 and 1946 and 2018/673.

(3)

Regulation 25 was amended by S.I. 2018/673.