The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1000

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998

Made

7th April 1998

Laid before Parliament

8th April 1998

Coming into force

30th April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 30th April 1998.

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

2.—(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) shall be further amended as follows.

(2) In paragraphs (10) and (10B)(c) of regulation 61 (emissions) for “1st May 1998” in both places where those words occur there shall be substituted “1st July 1998”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Helene Hayman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

7th April 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 by postponing to 1st July 1998 the date specified in regulation 61(10) and (10B)(c) of those Regulations (emissions in relation to amateur-built vehicles).

(1)

1988 c. 52; section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 50 and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1078: relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/1526, 1996/3017, 1997/1458 and 2935.