The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 No. 818

PART 3 U.K. National small series type approval and individual approval

CHAPTER 1 U.K. [F1 Small] series type approvals

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Pt. 3 Ch. 1 heading substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(1)

Applications for [F2 GB small series type-approval and UK (NI)] national small series type approval U.K.

15.—(1) A manufacturer requiring—

(a) a [F3 UK (NI)] national small series type approval in respect of a vehicle, F4 ...

(b) an amendment to a national small series type approval [F5 granted before IP completion day, or a UK (NI) national small series type-approval] which the manufacturer holds,

[F6 (c) a GB small series type-approval, or

(d) an amendment to a GB small series type-approval which the manufacturer holds,]

must apply to the approval authority.

(2) An application under paragraph (1) may follow—

(a) the step-by-step type-approval procedure,

(b) the single-step type-approval procedure, or

(c) the mixed type-approval procedure,

and, at the request of the applicant, the approval authority may, if it is thought appropriate, proceed by means of multi-stage type approval.

(3) An application under paragraph (1) must be in a form specified by the approval authority which—

(a) has been completed so as to provide all the information reasonably required by the authority in relation to the class of vehicle in respect of which the application is made, and

(b) is accompanied by—

(i) all the documents mentioned in the form as being required for the purposes of the application, and

(ii) the prescribed fee (if any).

(4) In this regulation, “mixed type-approval”, “multi-stage type approval”, “single-step type-approval” and “step-by-step type-approval” have the meanings given in Article 3 of the Type Approval Regulation but as if, in that Article, the words “type approval certificates under Article 42” were in each case substituted for “[F7 GB type-approval certificates]”.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in reg. 15 heading inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(a)

F3 Words in reg. 15(1)(a) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b)(i)(aa)

F4 Word in reg. 15(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b)(i)(bb)

F5 Words in reg. 15(1)(b) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b)(ii)

F6 Reg. 15(1)(c)(d) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b)(iii)

F7 Words in reg. 15(4) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(c)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 15 in force at 1.9.2020, see reg. 1(b)