The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2007 No. 404

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

18th September 2007

Coming into operation

31st October 2007

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 55(1), (2) and (6) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 31st October 2007.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(2).

Amendment to Schedule 10 (emissions from certain motor vehicles)

2.—(1) Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In paragraph 7, for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) “the emissions publication ”is the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles–Thirteenth Edition ”ISBN 978-0-9549352-2-1) published by the Department for Transport.”.

Revocation

3.  The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(3) are revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 18th September 2007.

Stanley Duncan

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the definition of “the emissions publication” in Schedule 10 to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 so as to refer to the most recent (i.e. the thirteenth) edition of the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles”. The publication specifies, with respect to vehicles with spark ignition engines, the maximum permitted carbon monoxide content of exhaust emissions at idling speed and the limits for the ratio of air to petrol vapour entering the combustion chamber, in relation to each of the vehicle models named in the publication.

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are revoked as a consequence of these Regulations.

Copies of the emissions publications can be obtained from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Berkeley House, Croydon Street, Bristol, BS5 0DA (Telephone number 0117 954 3277).

These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission pursuant to European Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (O.J. No. L204, 21.7.98, p.37).

Copies of the above-noted Directive may be obtained from TSO, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD.

(1)

S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

(2)

S.R. 1999 No. 454; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 241

(3)

S.R. 2006 No. 328