The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001

Vehicles manufactured using parts of a registered vehicle

5.  A vehicle is a vehicle manufactured using parts of a registered vehicle if—

(a) it is constructed or assembled by a person carrying on a business in the course of which motor vehicles are normally constructed or assembled;

(b) it is equipped with an engine which has previously been used as the engine of another vehicle which had been registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 or any earlier Act relating to the registration of mechanically propelled vehicles; and

(c) it is equipped with one or more of the following components taken from the same vehicle as the engine—

(i) chassis;

(ii) body;

(iii) suspension;

(iv) an axle;

(v) transmission; or

(vi) steering assembly.