2003 No. 517
Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Article 55(1) and (2) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 19951 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2004.
2
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19992.
Amendment to regulation 74 (emission of smoke, vapour, gases, oily substances etc)3
Paragraph (17) of regulation 74 of the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows –
a
at the end of sub-paragraph (b) the word “or” shall be deleted;
b
at the end of sub-paragraph (c) the word “or” shall be inserted;
c
after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted –
d
a vehicle which –
i
is not a passenger car,
ii
is first used on or after 1st July 2002, and
iii
has a maximum gross weight not exceeding 3,500 kg.
Amendment to Schedule 10 (emissions from certain motor vehicles)4
1
Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
2
In paragraph (3) –
a
the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (a) shall be deleted;
b
for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted –
b
if the vehicle is not of such a description and is first used before 1st July 2002, 0.5%;
or
c
after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added –
c
if the vehicle is not of such a description and is first used on or after 1st July 2002, 0.3%;
3
In paragraph (4A) –
a
the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (a) shall be deleted;
b
for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted –
b
if the vehicle is not of such a description and is first used before 1st July 2002, 0.3%;
or
c
after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added –
c
if the vehicle is not of such a description and is first used on or after 1st July 2002, 0.2%;
4
For paragraph (8) there shall be substituted –
8
This Part of this Schedule applies to a vehicle if when tested in accordance with point 8.2.2. of Annex II of Council Directive 96/96/EC as replaced by Annex to Commission Directive 2003/27/EC, the coefficient of absorption of the exhaust emissions from the engine of the vehicle immediately after leaving the exhaust system exceeds –
a
if the vehicle is first used before 1st July 2008 and the engine of that vehicle is turbo-charged, 3.0 per metre;
b
if the vehicle is first used before 1st July 2008 and the engine of that vehicle is not turbo-charged, 2.5 per metre; or
c
if the vehicle is first used on or after 1st July 2008, 1.5 per metre.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 8th December 2003.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)