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

Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3—

(a) for the definition of “ECE Regulation 36” substitute—

““ECE Regulation 36” means ECE Regulation No. 36 (uniform provisions concerning the construction of public service vehicles) which came into force on 1st March 1976 as an Annex to the UNECE Agreement;

“ECE Regulation No. 52” means ECE Regulation No. 52 (uniform provisions concerning the approval of M2 and M3 small capacity vehicles with regard to their general construction) which came into force on 1st November 1982 as an Annex to the UNECE Agreement;

“ECE Regulation No. 52.01” means ECE Regulation No 52 as amended by the 01 series of amendments on 12th September 1995;

“ECE Regulation No. 107” means ECE Regulation No. 107 (uniform provisions concerning the approval of M2 and M3 vehicles with regard to their general construction) which came into force on 18th June 1998 as an Annex to the UNECE Agreement;

“ECE Regulation No. 107.01” means ECE Regulation No. 107 as amended by the 01 series of amendments on 12th August 2004;

“ECE Regulation No. 107.02” means ECE Regulation No. 107 as amended by the 02 series of amendments on 10th November 2007;”; and

(b) after the definition of “type approval certificate” insert—

““the UNECE Agreement” means the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for the reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions, to which the United Kingdom is a party by virtue of an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963;”.

(3) In regulation 4A—

(a) that regulation shall be re-numbered as paragraph (1); and

(b) after that re-numbered paragraph insert—

“(2) The prescribed conditions as to the fitness of a vehicle contained in regulations 6 to 33 in Part 2 may alternatively be met by a vehicle satisfying such requirements of ECE Regulation 107.01 or 107.02 as apply to it.

(3) The prescribed conditions as to the fitness of a vehicle contained in regulations 13, 15 to 17, 20 to 28A and 31 in Part 2 may alternatively be met by a vehicle satisfying such requirements of ECE Regulation 52.01 as apply to it.”.

(1)

S.I. 1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I 1982/1058, 1986/1812, 1989/2359, 2002/335 and 2005/2986.