The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Fees) Regulations 2001

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“appeal” means an appeal made in accordance with regulation 9 of the Approval Regulations;

“the Approval Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001(1);

“exceptional circumstances” means an accident, a fire, an epidemic, severe weather, a failure in the supply of essential services or other unexpected happening (excluding a breakdown or mechanical defect in a vehicle or non delivery of spare parts for that vehicle);

“further application” means an application made in accordance with regulation 6(6) of the Approval Regulations;

“goods vehicle” means a motor vehicle of a kind referred to in regulation 4(1)(b) of the Approval Regulations;

“model report” means a collection of data and information about a vehicle which is not a Schedule 2 vehicle that has been submitted by an applicant for the purposes of approval of other vehicles of the same model under regulation 5(1)(b) of the Approval Regulations and which demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State compliance with the relevant provisions of Schedule 4 to the Approval Regulations;

“original application” means an application made in accordance with regulation 6(1) to (3) of the Approval Regulations, not being a further application;

“out of hours” means at any time either—

(a)

on any day which is a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day or a Bank holiday (as defined in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(2)); or

(b)

on any other day, other than between—

(i)

8.00 am and 5.00 p.m. on a Monday to Thursday inclusive, or

(ii)

8.00 am and 4.30 p.m. on a Friday;

“passenger vehicle” means a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984(3) apply;

“relevant vehicle” means a vehicle to which the Approval Regulations apply;

“same model” means, in relation to two or more vehicles, vehicles that are the same as each other in all the aspects of their technical specification relevant to the subject matter of Schedule 4 to the Approval Regulations; and

“Schedule 2 vehicle” has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Approval Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2001/25.

(2)

1971 c. 80.

(3)

S.I. 1984/981; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1761, 1987/1509, 1988/1522, 1989/1580, 1991/1022, 1992/1341, 2161 and 2908, 1993/2201 and 1995/1322.