The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001

Form of certificate

11.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, where a Minister’s approval certificate is issued under section 58(1) of the 1988 Act on the basis that the vehicle complies with the approval requirements by virtue of these Regulations, the certificate shall be in the form set out in Schedule 5 to these Regulations or in a form to the like effect.

(2) Where the certificate is issued on the basis that it relates to a vehicle falling within a class specified in column (2) of an item in the Table below there shall be inserted in the box under the words “Class Code” the letter specified in column (3) of that item.

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Item	Class of vehicle	Letter
1.	Left hand drive vehicle	N
2.	Personally imported vehicle	P
3.	Amateur built vehicle	A
4.	Vehicle manufactured in very low volume	L
5.	Vehicle manufactured using parts from a registered vehicle	C
6.	Disabled persons vehicle	D
7.	Rebuilt vehicle	S
8.	Motor caravan, ambulance or hearse	M
9.	Armoured vehicle	T
10.	Vehicle not falling within any of the preceding classes specified in this Table	R
11.	Vehicle which meets the condition set out in regulation 5(8)(c)	E

(3) Any letter or letters inserted pursuant to paragraph (2) may be followed by a zero and then by any letters or numbers that the Secretary of State thinks fit to insert.

(4) Expressions used in this regulation which are the subject of definitions in Schedule 2 shall have the meanings given by those definitions.

(5) This regulation shall apply to a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(4) of the 1988 Act as it applies to such a certificate issued under section 58(1) of that Act as if for the words “section 58(1)” in the form set out in Schedule 5 to these Regulations there were substituted the words “section 58(4)”.