[F1146 Approval marks.U.K.
(1)Section 47 of the M1Road Traffic Act 1962 (which relates to approval marks for motor vehicle parts for the purposes of certain international agreements) shall apply where any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party provides—
(a)for markings to be applied to a motor vehicle to indicate that the vehicle is fitted with motor vehicle parts within the meaning of that section of any description and either—
(i)that the parts conform with a type approved by any country; or
(ii)that the vehicle is such that as so fitted it conforms with a type so approved; and
(b)for motor vehicles bearing those markings to be recognised as complying with the requirements imposed by the law of another country,
as it applies where such an agreement provides as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of that section.
(2)In the said section 47, the expression “motor vehicle part” shall include any equipment for the protection of drivers or passengers in or on a motor vehicle notwithstanding that it does not form part of, or of the equipment of, that vehicle.
(3)In this section, the expression “motor vehicle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle or a vehicle designed or adapted for towing by a mechanically propelled vehicle.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 146 repealed (E.W.)(S.) by Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20, SIF 107:1), s. 205, Sch. 9 Pt. I
Marginal Citations