2002 No. 2126
ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2002

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1), (2) and (5) of section 41 of the Road Traffic Act 19881 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with sub-section (2) of section 195 of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 4th September 2002.

Amendment of Regulation 602.

(1)

Regulation 60 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations2 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

Paragraph (1C) shall be deleted and the following shall be substituted:

“(1C)

—Subject to paragraph (1F), the requirements of Community Directive 72/245/EC3 as amended by Community Directive 95/54/EC4 shall be met by electrical/electronic sub-assemblies as components or separate technical units first used on or after 1 October 2002.”

(3)

In Paragraph (1D), the words “EC Regulation 10 or 10.01” shall be deleted and the following shall be substituted: “ECE Regulations 10, 10.01 or 10.02”

(4)

Paragraph (1F) shall be deleted and the following shall be substituted:

“(1F)

—The requirements of paragraph (1C) shall not apply to electrical/electronic sub-assemblies of the following descriptions—

(a)

replacement parts intended for use on vehicles manufactured in accordance with type approvals granted before 1 January 1996 in compliance with Community Directive 72/245/EEC or Community Directive 72/306/EEC5 including any subsequent extension that may have been granted to such type approvals;

(b)

electrical/electronic sub-assemblies fitted to any vehicle under an authorisation having effect under Part III of the Police Act 19976 or Part II of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 20007.”

Amendment of Schedule 2, Table II3.

(1)

After Item 2 in column 1 of Table II in Schedule 2 shall be inserted the following:

2A

10.02

8.12.97

Radio interference suppression

2B

10.02

Amend. 1

9.7.99

Radio interference suppression

2C

10.02

Corr. 1

11.2.00

Radio interference suppression

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (“the 1986 Regulations”) in relation to the suppression of radio interference, by amending Regulation 60 and Schedule 2, Table II in various respects.

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996 No. 2329) substituted paragraphs (1)-(1F) of Regulation 60 and inserted paragraph (3) as a result of the requirement to implement Commission Directive 95/54/EC. That Directive made provision for new type approval requirements with respect to the suppression of radio interference by electrical and electronic sub-assemblies. The provisions applied to vehicles and to separate components. Amendments to Economic Commission for Europe Regulation 10, covered the same subject-matter.

Regulation 2(2) re-drafts paragraph (1C) of Regulation 60 and its provisions apply solely to electrical/electronic sub-assemblies as components or separate technical units, rather than to whole vehicles. Regulation 2(4) specifies the descriptions of electrical/electronic sub-assemblies to which Regulation 60 does not apply.

Since the making of S.I. 1996 No. 2329, ECE Regulation 10 has again been amended. New type approval provisions come into force on 1 October 2002, in line with Directive 95/54/EC and Regulation 2(3) amends paragraph 1D in order to take account of this. Regulation 3 makes consequential amendments to Schedule 2 Table II of the 1986 Regulations.

Copies of the relevant EC Directives and of ECE Regulation 10.02 and all relevant Amendments and Corrigenda can be obtained from the Stationery Office.

Relevant website addresses are: http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk; http://europa.eu.int/eurlex/en/search_lif.html and http://www.unece.org