The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980

Notice by a manufacturer of cessation of, or alteration in, the manufacture of vehicles or vehicle components of an approved type, or of alterations in the relevant aspects of design etc U.K.

10.—(1) Where a manufacturer of a type vehicle or a type vehicle component in respect of which a type approval certificate is in force—

(a) intends to cease the manufacture of vehicles or vehicle components conforming with that type, or

(b) intends to make any alteration in the manufacture of vehicles or vehicle components conforming with that type of a kind which would result in any of the particulars furnished in the relevant information document ceasing to apply, or

(c) intends to make any alteration in any of the relevant aspects of design, construction, equipment or marking (being aspects in relation to which notice has been previously given to the manufacturer by the Minister that they are aspects to which this sub-paragraph applies) of vehicles or vehicle components conforming with that type,

the manufacturer shall, as soon as practicable after forming that intention, give notice of it to the Minister specifying the type vehicle or, as the case may be, the type vehicle component to which it relates and—

(i) in a case mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above, the date when the manufacture of the vehicles or vehicle components in question is to cease, and

(ii) in a case mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) or (c) above, particulars of the alterations in question and of the date or dates on which they are to be made.

In this paragraph the reference to the relevant information document is a reference to the information document which, in accordance with Regulation 6(1), accompanied the application under that Regulation for the type approval certificate in question.

(2) In addition to the notice required under paragraph (1) the manufacturer concerned shall, not later than fourteen days after the date on which he has ceased the manufacture of the vehicles or vehicle components in question or, as the case may be, after he has made any alterations such as are mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) give notice of that fact to the Minister specifying—

(i) the date (whether or not it is the same date specified in the notice under the said paragraph (1)) on which the manufacture ceased or, as the case may be, the alterations were made, and

(ii) where the notice under the said paragraph (1) related to a type vehicle, the frame or chassis number assigned to the vehicle of that type which was last manufactured before that date.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 10(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 49(3)(d) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 10 in force at 9.9.1980, see reg. 1