The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996

Form of certificate

12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(1) of the 1988 Act shall be in the form set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations or in a form to the like effect where the certificate is issued on the basis that the vehicle complies with the approved requirements by virtue of these Regulations.

(2) There shall be inserted in the box under the words “Type Code”—

(a) the letter “V” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle meets the requirements of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(b) the letter “P” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle meets the requirements of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(c) the letter “A” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle meets the requirements of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(d) the letter “M” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle is a motor ambulance or a motor caravan,

but any letter or letters inserted pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) to (d) may be followed by a zero and then by any letters or numbers that the Secretary of State thinks fit to insert.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply to a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(4) of the 1988 Act as they apply to such a certificate issued under section 58(1) of that Act as if for the words “section 58(1)” in the form set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations there were substituted the words “section 58(4)”.