Type approval requirements—application
4.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5) and to the exemptions specified in column (4) of Schedule 1, the type approval requirements are hereby prescribed as requirements which are applicable—
(a)from the date specified in column (5) of Schedule 1, and
(b)in a case where a date is specified in column (6) of Schedule 1, until that date,
to vehicles to which these Regulations apply and to the relevant parts of such vehicles, before such vehicles are used on a road.
(2) If a vehicle or a vehicle part is manufactured on or after a date (other than 1st August 1978) specified in an item in column (5) of Schedule 1, the type approval requirement specified in column (3) in that item shall not apply if the vehicle or, in the case of a vehicle part, the vehicle in which it is incorporated, is first used on a road within six months of that date.
(3) If a vehicle or a vehicle part is manufactured on or after a date specified in an item in column (6) of Schedule 1, the type approval requirement specified in column (3) in that item shall apply if the vehicle or, in the case of a vehicle part, the vehicle in which it is incorporated, is first used on a road within six months of that date.
(4) Where, in relation to an item listed in column (2) of Schedule 1, two or more instruments or other documents are specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 as alternatives, the requirements prescribed by paragraph (1) are the requirements contained in either or any of those instruments or documents, and subject to paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) where two or more items specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 have the same subject matter as is specified in column (2) of Schedule 1 the type approval requirements relate to either or, as the case may be, any of those items.
(5) Where, in relation to an item listed in column (2) of Schedule 1, a requirement contained in an instrument or other document specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 is shown, by an entry in division (c) of that column, as being varied for the purposes of these Regulations, that requirement as so varied is the requirement hereby prescribed.
(6) A vehicle to which, or to a part of which, any requirement mentioned in paragraph (1) is for the time being applicable by virtue of paragraphs (1) to (5) is referred to in these Regulations as “a vehicle subject to type approval requirements”, and a vehicle part to which any such requirement is so applicable is referred to in these Regulations as “a vehicle part subject to type approval requirements”.
(7) Where a requirement is prescribed by these Regulations as a requirement applicable to a vehicle, or to a vehicle part, that requirement shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be regarded as being applicable to that vehicle or vehicle part by virtue of paragraphs (1) to (5) notwithstanding that the same requirement may have been, or may hereafter be, applied to that vehicle or vehicle part by or under any provision of the European Communities Act 1972 or by or under any other statutory provision.