(1)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that such provisions of the PSV accessibility regulations as may be prescribed for the purposes of section 41 are satisfied in respect of a particular vehicle he may approve the vehicle for the purposes of this section.
(2)A vehicle which has been so approved is referred to in this section as a “type vehicle”.
(3)Subsection (4) applies where a declaration in the prescribed form has been made by an authorised person that a particular vehicle conforms in design, construction and equipment with a type vehicle.
(4)A vehicle examiner may, after examining (if he thinks fit) the vehicle to which the declaration applies, issue a certificate in the prescribed form (“an approval certificate”) that it conforms to the type vehicle.
(5)The Secretary of State may make regulations—
(a)with respect to applications for, and grants of, approval under subsection (1);
(b)with respect to applications for, and the issue of, approval certificates;
(c)providing for the examination of vehicles in respect of which applications have been made;
(d)with respect to the issue of copies of approval certificates in place of certificates which have been lost or destroyed.
(6)The Secretary of State may at any time withdraw his approval of a type vehicle.
(7)Where an approval is withdrawn—
(a)no further approval certificates shall be issued by reference to the type vehicle; but
(b)any approval certificate issued by reference to the type vehicle before the withdrawal shall continue to have effect for the purposes of section 41.
(8)In subsection (3) “authorised person” means a person authorised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of that subsection.