The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Forms of certificates

12.—(1) A type approval certificate shall be in the form set out in Part I or Part II of Schedule 6.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (4), (5) and (6), a Department’s approval certificate shall be in the form set out in Part I or Part II of Schedule 7.

(3) A certificate of conformity shall be in the form set out in Part I or Part II of Schedule 8 and shall contain such of the particulars specified in the form in Schedule 8 as are relevant to the vehicle or vehicle part in respect of which the certificate is issued.

(4) Where the Department is satisfied that a vehicle complies with the relevant type approval requirements on the basis that it is a low volume type approval vehicle and is not satisfied that it would otherwise so comply, a Department’s approval certificate issued in respect of that vehicle shall be in the form set out in Part III of Schedule 7.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), a Department’s approval certificate for any vehicle shall be in a form prescribed by paragraph (4), if—

(a) the application was made on the basis that the vehicle is a low volume type approval vehicle; or

(b) the applicant has otherwise requested the certificate to be in a form prescribed by that paragraph,

and the Department is satisfied that the vehicle is a low volume type approval vehicle.

(6) Upon the issue of a Department’s approval certificate for any vehicle, where the Department is satisfied that the requirements of paragraph (7) are fulfilled and the applicant so requests, the certificate shall be endorsed with a statement that it is so satisfied.

(7) The requirements of this paragraph are that—

(a) an EC certificate of conformity has been issued in respect of the vehicle;

(b) since the EC certificate of conformity was issued the vehicle has been altered as described in the information document which accompanied the application under these Regulations;

(c) notwithstanding the alterations the vehicle is still of the type in respect of which the EC certificate of conformity was issued, and—

(i) if the EC certificate of conformity does not describe the vehicle as a variant, the vehicle has not as a consequence of the alterations become a variant of that type,

(ii) if the EC certificate of conformity describes the vehicle as a variant of that type, the vehicle has not as a consequence of the alterations become a different variant of that type;

(d) the EC certificate would still have had effect had the alterations not been made (whether or not that certificate in fact still has effect).

(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7)—

(a) “EC certificate of conformity” has the same meaning as in Article 31A(7) of the Order; and

(b) “type” and “variant” have the meanings given in Annex IIB of Council Directive 70/156/EEC(1), as amended by Council Directive 87/403/EEC(2) and Council Directive 92/53/EEC(3).

(1)

O.J. No. L42, 2.3.70, p. 1

(2)

O.J. No. L220, 8.8.87, p. 44

(3)

O.J. No. L225, 10.8.92, p. 1