The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption Order 1983

Information as to test results

14.—(1) For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 15(3), the information as to the results of the relevant official tests to be included in material issued to the general public or in manuals or handbooks shall be information as to the fuel consumption expressed both in miles per gallon and in litres per 100 kilometres of the class of car to which the tests relate as determined by those tests and recorded in an official fuel economy certificate.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (d) of section 15(3), the information relating to cars which have been subjected to the relevant official tests shall be the information as to the results of the tests which the Secretary of State has last caused to be published under Articles 7(4) or 9(4).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of section 15(3), the label to be affixed to a car shall be in all respects (including size, lay-out and variation of type) in the form shown in Schedule 5 and shall contain, by insertion in permanent and legible characters in the appropriate spaces, the following information—

(a) a distinctive reference to the models, that is to say descriptions of cars, to which the relevant official tests relate, and

(b) information as to the fuel consumption expressed in miles per gallon of the class of car to which the tests relate as recorded in the official fuel economy certificate as determined:—

(i) by the tests simulating urban driving,

(ii) by the tests at a constant speed of 90 kilometres per hour, and

(iii) by the tests at a constant speed of 120 kilometres per hour, if such tests are required to be, or have been, carried out.

(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (3) above, amendments to an official fuel economy certificate shall be disregarded if they are made less than two months before the car for the first purchaser of which the manual or handbook is issued or, as the case may be, to which the label is to be affixed leaves the factory.