The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 for the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—