The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1839

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990

Made

6th September 1990

Laid before Parliament

10th September 1990

Coming into force

1st October 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54(1) and 61 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st October 1990.

2.—(1) In the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984(2), the Table in Part II of Schedule 1B shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the entry relating to item 4C in Schedule 1, for paragraph 1 in column (2) and the entries relating to that paragraph in columns (3) and (4) there shall be substituted—

“1.   Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines, constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver or with a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kg, not being an off-road vehicle in either case and which have an engine capacity of:
(a) less than 1400 cc	see Schedule 1 item 4C	—	—
(b) not less than 1400 cc and not more than 2000 cc	see Schedule 1 item 4C	30.9.91	30.9.93
(c) more than 2000 cc	see Schedule 1 item 4C	30.9.91	30.9.92.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

6th September 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984.

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1580) provided for the cessation of the requirements specified in item 4C of Schedule 1, in relation to certain vehicles, on specified dates. The effect of the amendment is to revoke the cessation dates relating to some small passenger vehicles with spark ignition engines.

The main effect of the amendment is that most cars with spark ignition engines of less than 1400 cc will continue to be able to meet the type approval requirements relating to exhaust emissions if they comply with Council Directive 70/220/EEC (L76, 6.4.70, p.1) (S.E. 1970(I), p.171) as last amended by Council Directive 83/351/EEC (L197, 20.7.83, p.1) or ECE Regulation 15 as revised on the 20th of October 1981 and corrected on the 9th of June 1982 or ECE Regulation 15 as revised on the 20th of October 1981, corrected on the 9th of June 1982 and amended on the 1st of June 1984.

Copies of EEC Directives and ECE Regulations of relevance to these Regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. The details of the relevant EEC Directives and ECE Regulations are set out below.

Principal Instrument	Relevant Amending Instrument
1.  Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20th March 1970 (OJ No. L76, 6.4.70, p.1) CSE 1970(I), p.171).	Council Directive 74/290/EEC of 28th May 1974 (OJ No. L159, 15.6.74, p.61); Commission Directive 77/102/EEC of 30th November 1976 (OJ No. L32, 3.2.77, p.32); Commission Directive 78/665/EEC of 14th July 1978 (OJ No. L223, 14.8.78, p.48); Council Directive 83/351/EEC of 16th June 1983 (OJ No. L197, 20.7.83, p.1); Council Directive 88/76/EEC of 3rd December 1987 (OJ No. L36, 9.2.88, p.1); Council Directive 88/436/EEC of 16th June 1988 (OJ No. L214, 6.8.88, p.1, to which there is corrigendum in OJ No. L303, 8.11.88, p.36); and Council Directive 89/458/EEC of 18th July 1989 (OJ No. L226, 3.8.89, p.1).
2.  Regulation 15 annexed to the Agreement concerning the adoption of uniform conditions of approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts and reciprocal recognition thereof concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 (Cmnd. 2535) as amended (Cmnd. 3562) to which the United Kingdom is a party by an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963.	Amended on 11th December 1974; amended on 1st March 1977; revised on 20th October 1981; corrected on 9th June 1982 and amended on 1st June 1984.

(1)

1988 c. 52.

(2)

S.I. 1984/981, as amended by S.I. 1984/1401, and /1761, 1985/1651, 1986/739, 1987/1509, 1988/1522, 1989/1580 and 1990/94.