The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 requires that a vehicle adapted to carry more than eight passengers and used as a public service vehicle shall not be used on a road unless a certificate has been issued in respect of it indicating that the prescribed conditions of fitness have been fulfilled. The prescribed conditions of fitness may be found in Part 2 of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 (“the 1981 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 re-numbers regulation 4A of the 1981 Regulations as paragraph (1) of that regulation and then inserts paragraphs (2) and (3). These paragraphs provide that the specified requirements in Part 2 of the 1981 Regulations may alternatively be met by a vehicle satisfying the requirements of ECE Regulations No. 52.01 (concerning the approval of M2 and M3 small capacity vehicles with regard to their general construction), 107.01 or 107.02 (concerning the approval of M2 and M3 vehicles with regard to their general construction), as apply to it. It also inserts definitions of the ECE Regulations into regulation 3 of the 1981 Regulations.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the costs of business, the public sector, third sector organisations, regulators or consumers is foreseen.

Copies of the ECE Regulations referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office (telephone: [phone], website www.tsoshop.co.uk) or from the UNECE website http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs101-120.html.