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Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 1806

Road Traffic

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

Made

6th July 2009

Laid before Parliament

9th July 2009

Coming into force

1st August 2009

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1).

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1st August 2009.

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 7, for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

(b)“the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles – Fifteenth Edition” (ISBN 978-0-9549352-4-5) published by the Department for Transport.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Sadiq Khan

Minister of State

Department for Transport

6th July 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (“the 1986 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends the definition of “the emissions publication” in Schedule 7B to the 1986 Regulations so as to refer to the most recent edition of the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles – Fifteenth Edition” (ISBN 978-0-9549352-4-5). The publication contains in-use emissions limits that petrol-engined cars and light vans are required to meet at MoT and roadside emissions tests. The publication updates information on new models of petrol-engined passenger cars and light commercial vehicles which have come onto the market since the previous amending Regulations came into force on 1st August 2008; it also revises a small amount of data on existing models.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. The Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside this instrument on the OPSI website (www.opsi.gov.uk).

(1)

1988 c.52; section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 50 and Schedule 8.