Interpretation of “low volume type approval vehicle”
4.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations a vehicle (“the vehicle in question”) is a low volume type approval vehicle at a particular time if—
(a)since the 31st December immediately preceding that time less than 500 Department’s approval certificates have been issued with respect to vehicles of the relevant class; and
(b)no type approval certificate is in force with respect to a vehicle of the relevant class.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1), a vehicle shall be deemed to be a low volume type approval vehicle for the purposes of these Regulations if a Department’s approval certificate in the form set out in Part III of Schedule 4 has been issued with respect to it.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a vehicle is a vehicle of the relevant class if it is not the vehicle in question, but is a vehicle—
(a)of the same or similar model; and
(b)manufactured by the same manufacturer,
as the vehicle in question.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation only, two or more vehicles manufactured by different bodies corporate shall be regarded as having been manufactured by the same manufacturer if at the date when the last of those vehicles was manufactured the bodies were interconnected within the meaning given by section 137(5) of the Fair Trading Act 1973(1).
1973 c. 41; subsection (5) was amended by 1976 c. 34 s. 44, Sch. 6 and 1985 c. 9 s. 30, Sch. 2