The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1702

Road Traffic

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Made

30th June 2008

Laid before Parliament

3rd July 2008

Coming into force

1st August 2008

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1).

In accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, she has consulted with representative organisations.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 1st August 2008.

Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

2.—(1) Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 7, for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) “the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles – Fourteenth Edition” (ISBN 978-0-9549352-3-8) published by the Department for Transport.”

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

J. Fitzpatrick

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

30th June 2008

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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

Regulation 2 amends the definition of “the emissions publication” in Schedule 7B of the 1986 Regulations so as to refer to the most recent edition of the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles – Fourteenth Edition”. The publication contains in-use emissions limits that petrol-engined cars and light vans are required to meet at MoT and roadside emissions tests. The publication updates information on new models of petrol-engined passenger cars and light commercial vehicles which have come onto the market since the previous amending Regulations came into effect on 1st August 2007; it also revises a small amount of data on existing models.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

1988 c.52; section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 50 and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I  1986/1078; relevant amending instruments are S.I  1995/2210,  1996/2085,  1997/1544,  1998/1563,  1999/1521,  1999/1959,  2000/1434,  2001/1825,  2002/1474,  2003/1690,  2004/1706,  2005/1641,  2006/1756 and 2007/1817.