The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st October 1993.

Preliminary

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982(1) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments to regulation 4 (application of type approval requirements)

3.—(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), after “(2),” there shall be inserted “(2A),”.

(3) In paragraph (2), the words “and as at its date of manufacture” shall be omitted.

(4) After paragraph (2) as so amended, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2A) In relation to a particular vehicle—

(a) a type approval requirement applicable to the vehicle at the date of manufacture shall continue to apply to it until it is first used; and

(b) a type approval requirement which is applicable to vehicles as from a date after that vehicle was manufactured shall not apply to the vehicle unless the subject matter of the requirement is the same as that of a requirement applicable to it on the date it was manufactured;

but nothing in this paragraph affects the operation of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) so far as it relates to requirements with respect to exhaust emissions from any vehicle, other than a vehicle with fewer than 4 wheels or fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.”.

(5) In paragraph (3), the words from the beginning to “this regulation,” shall be omitted.

(6) Paragraph (3A) shall be omitted.

(7) In paragraph (4), there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Save as provided in paragraph (4A),”.

(8) After paragraph (4) as so amended, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(4A) The provisions of paragraph (4) do not apply in respect of items 2D and 2F in Part I of Schedule 1.”.

(9) In paragraph (14) after “2E,” there shall be inserted “2F,”.

Amendments to Part I of Schedule 1

4.—(1) Part I of Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For items 2F and 2G there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(3) After item 2H, there shall be inserted the item shown in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(4) For items 4D(4) and 4E there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

(5) For items 6F, 6G, 6H, 6I, 6J, 6K, and 6L there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.

Amendments to Schedule 1B (date of application and cessation of certain type approval requirements)

5.—(1) Part I of Schedule 1B shall be amended as follows.

(2) Paragraph 1 shall be renumbered paragraph 1A and before that paragraph as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“1.   This Part of this Schedule has effect subject to Part III of this Schedule.”.

(3) In paragraph 1A as so renumbered, after “2E,” there shall be inserted “2F,”.

6.  In Part II of Schedule 1B, after the entry relating to item 2E in Part I of Schedule 1, there shall be inserted the following entry—

“2F

All vehicles

1.7.1992

30.9.1993

30.9.1994”.

7.  In Schedule 1B, after Part II, there shall be added the provisions set out in Schedule 5 to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

8th September 1993