Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 22nd February 2007.

2

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19992.

Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)2

In regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations, in the definition “Community Directive, followed by a number”, after the words “Commission of the European Communities”, there shall be added “or the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union”.

Amendment to regulation 38 (mirrors)3

For regulation 38 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the regulation set out in the Schedule.

Amendment to Schedule 1 (Community Directives and ECE Regulations)4

1

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

2

In Table I—

a

after item 88B3 there shall be inserted the following item—

88C

96/96

20.12.96

L46,17.2.97 p.1

Roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers

b

after item 964 there shall be added the following items—

97

2000/30

6.6.2000

L203, 10.8.2000, p.1

Technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Community

98

2002/85

5.11.2002

L57, 4.12.2002, p.327

Installation and use of speed limitation devices for certain categories of motor vehicles in the Community

92/6

99

2003/26

3.4.2003

L90, 8.4.2003, p.37

Speed limiters and exhaust emissions of commercial vehicles

2000/30

100

2003/27

3.4.2003

L90, 8.4.2003, p.41

Testing of exhaust emissions from motor vehicles

96/96

101

2003/97

10.11.2003

L25, 29.1.2004, p.1

Devices for indirect vision

71/127 as amended by 79/795, 85/205, 86/562 and 88/321

102

2004/11

11.2.2004

L44, 14.2.2004, p.19

Speed limitation devices or similar speed limitation on-board systems of certain categories of motor vehicles

92/24

9A

103

2005/27

30.3.2005

L81, 30.3.2005, p.44

Devices for indirect vision

71/127 as replaced by 2003/97

3

In Table II, after item 30 there shall be added the following item—

30A

46.02

46

21.10.84

Mirrors

23.06.05

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 10th January 2007.

Maggie SmithA senior officer of theDepartment of the Environment