The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 1992

Amendments relating to tyres

4.—(1) Regulation 25 shall be amended as follows:

(2) In Table II—

(a) in column 4, after the words “Tyres marked in accordance with ECE Regulation 30, 30.01 or 30.02”, there shall be inserted the words “and relevant car tyres”;

(b) in column 4, after the words “Tyres marked in accordance with ECE Regulation 54”, there shall be inserted the words “and relevant commercial vehicle tyres”;

(c) in column 4, after the words “Annex 8 to ECE Regulation 54”, wherever they appear, there shall be inserted the words “or Appendix 8 to Annex II to Community Directive 92/23”; and

(d) in item 12, before the word “vehicle” there shall be inserted the word “motor”.

(3) In paragraph (7), after the word “vehicle” there shall be inserted the words “was marked with a designated approval mark or”.

(4) In paragraph (9)—

(a) before the definition of “dual wheels”, there shall be inserted the following definition—

““designated approval mark” means the marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of the Approval Marks Regulations(1) and shown at item 33 in Schedule 4 to those Regulations (that item being a marking relating to Community Directive 92/23);”

(b) in the definition of “load-capacity index”, after the words “as in” there shall be inserted the words “paragraph 2.28 of Annex II to Community Directive 92/23 or”; and

(c) in the definition of “speed category”, after the words “as in” there shall be inserted the words “paragraph 2.29 of Annex II to Community Directive 92/23 or”.

(5) After paragraph (9), there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(9A) For the purposes of this regulation, a tyre is a “relevant car tyre” if—

(a) it has been marked with a designated approval mark, and

(b) the first two digits of the approval number comprised in the mark are “02”.

(9B) For the purposes of this regulation, a tyre is a “relevant commercial vehicle tyre” if—

(a) it has been marked with a designated approval mark, and

(b) the first two digits of the approval number comprised in the mark are “00”.”

(1)

“The Approval Marks Regulations”is defined in regulation 3(2) of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 as meaning the Road Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/1088). Relevant amendments to the 1979 Regulations are made by S.I. 1992/3086.