The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Regulation 7

SCHEDULE 2

The following Schedule shall be inserted after Schedule 1 to the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984.

“SCHEDULE 1A (see regulation 4(10) and Schedule 1) Dates of Application of Items 25 and 26 of Schedule 1

PART I

1.   In this Schedule—

“EEC type approval certificate” means a certificate issued by a member state of the European Economic Community in accordance with Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20th March 1970(1) as originally made or with any amendments which have from time to time been made before 5th September 1988;

“engine capacity” means in the case of a reciprocating engine, the nominal swept volume and, in the case of a rotary engine, double the nominal swept volume;

“off-road vehicle” has the meaning given by Annex I to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6th February 1970(2) as amended at 5th September 1988;

“relevant authority” means

(a)

in relation to an EEC type approval certificate issued by the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State, and

(b)

in relation to an EEC type approval certificate issued by any other member state of the European Economic Community, the authority having power under the law of that state to issue that certificate.

2.   Items 25 and 26 of Schedule 1 shall have effect in relation to a vehicle as if the date applicable to that vehicle determined in accordance with the following provisions of this Schedule appeared in column (5) of those items.

3.   The date applicable to a vehicle shall be—

(a) where the vehicle is of a description specified in column 2 of the Table in Part II of this Schedule and the conditions specified in paragraph 4 are satisfied in relation to it, the date specified for a vehicle of that description in column 3 of the Table;

(b) where paragraph (a) does not apply but the vehicle is one for which, or for a model of which, there is a type approval certificate or (as the case may be) a Minister’s approval certificate in force on 30th September 1989, 1st October 1990;

(c) in any other case, 1st October 1989.

4.   The conditions referred to in paragraph 3 are—

(a) that the vehicle is a model in relation to which there is in force an EEC type approval certificate issued before 1st October 1989;

(b) that the manufacturer of the vehicle has supplied to the relevant authority which issued the EEC type approval certificate, a certificate stating that adapting vehicles of that model to the fuel requirements specified in the Annexes to Council Directive 70/220/EEC as amended at 5th September 1988 would entail a change in material specification of the inlet or exhaust valve seats or a reduction in the compression ratio or an increase in the engine capacity to compensate for loss of power; and

(c) that the relevant authority has accepted the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (b).

PART II TABLE (see Part I)

(1)	(2)	(3)
Item	Description of vehicle	Date in cases where paragraph 3(a) of Part I applies
1.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of less than 1400cc.	1.10.1991
2.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of not less than 1400cc and not more than 2000cc.	1.10.1993
3.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of more than 2000cc and which— (a) are constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver, or (b) have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500kg. not being in either case, an off-road vehicle.	1.10.1992”

(1)

OJ No L76, 6.4.70, p.1 (OJ/SE 1970(I) p.171); amending instruments are listed in item 4D in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(2)

OJ No L42, 23.2.70, p.1; the relevant amending instrument is Council Directive 87/403/EEC (OJ No L220, 8.8.87, p.44).