The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 1993

Preliminary

2.—(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(1) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that–

(a) it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 3 shall apply as from 1st September 1993 to vehicles registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(2) before the expiration of 1 year from the making of these Regulations; and

(b) notwithstanding that the said provisions would then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience would be caused thereby.

(3) The only provisions in these Regulations which are made in whole or in part in exercise of powers under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 alone or in addition to powers under the Road Traffic Act 1988 are regulation 3(1) and Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations and those provisions are so made only in so far as they enact–

(a) paragraph (14) of and the definition of “equivalent standard” in regulation 36A of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 as substituted by those provisions; and

(b) paragraph (15) of and the definition of “equivalent standard” in regulation 36B of those Regulations as substituted by those provisions.

(1)

1986/1078; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/271 and 1524, 1991/1527 and 1992/422.

(2)

1971 c. 10; the Act was extended to Northern Ireland by section 10 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31).