2013 No. 218
Road Traffic And Vehicles
The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
Made 3rd September 2013
Coming into operation 30th September 2013

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 65(1) and 67(1)(m) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.
S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 30th September 2013.

2 Amendment of the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
In Schedule 2 to the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (classes of vehicles to which these regulations do not apply) after item 40 add—

“41 Goods vehicles not exceeding 3,500 kilograms having a date of manufacture before 1st January 1960.”

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S.R. 2003 No. 304; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 3rd September 2013
Iain Greenway A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend Schedule 2 of the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 to allow goods vehicles not exceeding 3,500 kilograms manufactured before 1st January 1960 to be used on the roads without a vehicle test certificate. Article 4(2) of Directive 2009/40/EC (OJ L141, 6.6.2009, p.12) allows Member States to exempt such vehicles from roadworthiness testing.
A copy of Directive 2009/40/EC may be downloaded without charge from EUR-Lex, the European Law website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm).
An Explanatory Memorandum and a Regulatory Impact Assessment have been produced and are available from Road Safety and Vehicle Regulation Division, Department of the Environment, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Town Parks, Belfast BT2 8GB or viewed online athttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr