The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Amendments as to exhaust emissions

3.—(1) In regulation 4—

(a) in paragraph (3), for “If a vehicle or vehicle part” there is substituted “Save as provided in paragraph (3A) of this regulation, if a vehicle or vehicle part”;

(b) after paragraph (3) there is inserted the following new paragraph—

“(3A) The provisions of paragraph (3) of this regulation do not apply in respect of items 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F in Schedule 1.”;

(c) in paragraph (11), for “item 4C, and column (5) of items 4D, 4E and 27” there is substituted “items 4C, 4D, 4E, 4F and 27, and column (6) of items 25 and 26”.

(2) In Schedule 1—

(a) for item 4D, there is substituted item 4D as specified in Schedule 1 to these regulations;

(b) in item 4E, in column (6), there is inserted “See regulation 4(11) and Schedule 1B”;

(c) after item 4E, there is inserted the new items 4F, 4G, 4H and 4J as specified in Schedule 1 to these regulations;

(d) in item 25, in column (6), there is inserted “See regulation 4(11) and Schedule 1B”;

(e) in item 26, in column (6), there is inserted “See regulation 4(11) and Schedule 1B”; and

(f) in item 27, in column (6), there is inserted “See regulation 4(11) and Schedule 1B”.

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 1B—

(a) in paragraph 2, after “4E” there is inserted “4F, 25, 26”;

(b) in paragraph 3(1)(a), for the words “sub-paragraph (2)” there is substituted “sub-paragraphs (2) or (3)”; and

(c) after paragraph 3(2) there are added the following sub-paragraphs—

“(3) This sub-paragraph applies in relation to item 4E where a vehicle is fitted with an engine which is described in the Annex to a type-approval certificate granted before the 1st July 1992 in accordance with Council Directive 88/77/EEC(1).

(4) Expressions used in paragraph (3), which are also used in article 3 of Council Directive 91/542/EEC(2), have the same meaning as in that article.”

(4) For Part II of Schedule 1B there is substituted a new Part II as specified in Schedule 2 to these regulations.

(1)

OJ L36, 9.2.88, p. 33.

(2)

OJ L295, 25.10.91, p. 1.