The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982.

Previously only vehicles with petrol engines were subject to type approval requirements relating to the content of exhaust emissions (as opposed to the density of smoke). These Regulations substitute five new items in Schedule 1 of the 1982 Regulations for four previous items. The new items re-enact the existing requirements for vehicles with petrol engines. They also introduce new alternative requirements for vehicles with petrol engines and new requirements for vehicles with diesel engines. The Table below sets out the derivation of the new items in so far as they re-enact previous items and the instruments referred to in the items. It also identifies the requirements that are new.

Instrument referred to in item	Previous Schedule Item	New Schedule Item	Extent that requirements are new
Council Directive 70/220/EEC as last amended by 78/665/EEC, or ECE Regulation 15.03.	2	2	—
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.	2A	2A	—
Council Directive 70/220/EEC as last amended by 83/351/EEC; and ECE Regulation 15.04.	2	2B	New so far as the requirement applies to vehicles with diesel engines.
Council Directive 70/220/EEC as last amended by 88/76/EEC.	2B	2C	New so far as the requirement applies to vehicles with diesel engines.
Council Directive 88/77/EEC.	—	2D	New for vehicles with diesel engines and does not apply to vehicles with petrol engines.

The application dates for the new alternative requirements, in so far as they are not set out in the items, are determined in accordance with the new Schedule 1B which is added by regulation 5. The dates of cessation of the existing requirements and some of the new requirements, in so far as they are not set out in the items, are also determined in accordance with that Schedule.

Regulation 6 changes the name of the subject matter of items 3, 3A and 3B inSchedule 1 from “exhaust emission” to “smoke emissions”. These items relate only to vehicles with diesel engines and the change is made to avoid confusion with the exhaust emission requirements set out in items 2, 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D.

Copies of the EEC Directives and ECE Regulations (and amendments) referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.