The Road Vehicles (Approval) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2009

Amendment of Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 U.K.

2.—(1) Section 6 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 M1 (certificate of initial fitness or equivalent required for use as public service vehicles) is amended as provided in paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) at the beginning insert “ Subject to subsection (1ZA) below, ”;

(b) for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(d) one of the following certificates has effect with respect to the vehicle�??

(i) an EC certificate of conformity;

(ii) a national small series certificate of conformity;

(iii) an individual approval certificate.”.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1ZA) In the case of a public service vehicle to which subsection (1ZB) below applies, subsection (1) above has effect as if paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection were omitted.

(1ZB) This subsection applies to any public service vehicle which, by virtue of regulation 6 of the Approval Regulations, may not—

(a) be granted a first licence under section 21 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 M2 , or

(b) be registered before the issue of a first licence under that section,

unless one of the certificates mentioned in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) above has effect with respect to the vehicle.”.

(4) At the end insert�??

“(3) In this section—

“Approval Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009 M3 ;

“EC certificate of conformity”, “national small series certificate of conformity” and “individual approval certificate” have the meaning given by regulation 3(1) of the Approval Regulations.”.

Marginal Citations

M1 1981 c.14. Section 6(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c.53), Schedule 3, paragraph 22 and the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 14 (and has been prospectively amended by the Transport Act 1982, section 10(3)).

M2 1994 c.22.

M3 S.I. 2009/717.