The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 61 of the 1986 Regulations so as to substitute a new Table for Table II of that regulation. Table II lists design, construction and equipment requirements relating to emissions applicable to particular classes of vehicle and specifies the instruments containing those requirements. The main change introduced by the substituted table is the addition of items 13 and 14. Consequential amendments are made to earlier items.

Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends Schedule 7B (emissions from certain vehicles) to the 1986 Regulations by substituting a new definition of the expression “the emissions publication” so as to refer to the recently published third edition of this publication (In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles (3rd edition) published by the Department of Transport). The publication sets out the in-service exhaust emission standards which various makes of vehicle are required to meet in accordance with Schedule 7B.

A copy of the emissions publication can be obtained free of charge from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Vehicle Certification Agency, 1 Eastgate Office Centre, Eastgate Road, Bristol BS5 6XX (Telephone [phone]).

Compliance cost assessments have been prepared and copies can be obtained from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Zone 2/03, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR (Telephone [phone]). Copies have been placed in the libraries of each House of Parliament.