The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2082

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

21st July 1999

Laid before Parliament

22nd July 1999

Coming into force

23rd July 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54, 61, 63 and 66 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 23rd July 1999.

Preliminary

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996(2) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment of regulation 3 (application of Part II)

3.  In regulation 3(1)(b) after the words “paragraph 1,” there shall be inserted “1A,”.

Amendment of regulation 5 (application of Part III)

4.  In regulation 5(1)(c) after the words “paragraph 1,” there shall be inserted “1A,”.

Amendment of regulation 12 (form of certificate)

5.  In regulation 12(2) after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph–

“(aa) the letter “E” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle meets the requirements of paragraph 1A of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;”.

Amendment of Schedule 1 (application of Regulations—supplementary provisions)

6.  In Schedule 1 after paragraph 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“Vehicles satisfying approval requirements by virtue of recognition of equivalent approval granted by an EEA State

1A.   A vehicle meets the requirements of this paragraph at a particular time if it is to be regarded as having fulfilled the approval requirements in relation to each subject matter applicable to it–

(a) in accordance with regulation 4(4) and by virtue of the condition specified in regulation 4(5)(d); or

(b) in accordance with regulation 6(4) and by virtue of the condition specified in regulation 6(5)(d).”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

21st July 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”).

Regulation 6 amends Schedule 1 to the 1996 Regulations by the insertion of a new class of vehicle to which the 1996 Regulations are capable of applying, namely vehicles which are to be treated as complying with the approval requirements by virtue of their having been found by the approval authority of another EEA State to meet equivalent approval requirements in respect of each applicable subject matter. Regulations 3, 4 and 5 make consequential amendments.

(1)

1988 c. 52; section 61 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 8 and section 63 was amended by S.I. 1992/3107. Section 66 was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22), Schedule 3, paragraph 24(4) and by S.I. 1992/3107.

(2)

S.I. 1996/3013; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/1008.