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The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
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- 1986 No. 1078
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- Regulation 6
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Version Superseded: 01/01/1996
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- 11/08/1986- Amendment
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Compliance with Community Directives and ECE RegulationsE+W+S
6.—(1) For the purpose of any regulation which requires or permits a vehicle to comply with the requirements of a Community Directive or an ECE Regulation, a vehicle shall be deemed so to have complied at the date of its first use only if—
(a)one of the certificates referred to in paragraph (2) has been issued in relation to it; or
(b)the marking referred to in paragraph (3) has been applied; or
(c)it was, before it was used on a road, subject to a relevant type approval requirement as specified in paragraph (4).
(2) The certificates mentioned in paragraph (1) are—
(a)a type approval certificate issued by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 of the Type Approval Regulations or of the Type Approval for Agricultural Vehicles Regulations;
(b)a certificate of conformity issued by the manufacturer of the vehicle under regulation 6 of either of those Regulations; F1...
(c)a certificate issued under a provision of the law of any member state of the European Economic Community which corresponds to the said regulations 5 or 6 [F2; or
(d)a sound level measurement certificate issued by the Secretary of State under regulation 4 of the Motorcycles (Sound Level Measurement Certificates) Regulations 1980;]
being in each case a certificate issued by reason of the vehicle's conforming to the requirements of the Community Directive in question.
(3) The marking mentioned in paragraph (1) is a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Approval Marks Regulations, being in each case a mark shown in column 2 of an item in Schedule 2 to those Regulations which refers, in column 5, to the ECE Regulation in question, applied as indicated in column 4 in that item.
(4) A relevant type approval requirement is a requirement of the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations or the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations which appears—
(a)in column 4 of Table I in Schedule 2 in the item in which the Community Directive in question appears in column 3, or
(b)in column 4 of Table II in Schedule 2 in the item in which the ECE Regulation in question appears in column3.
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F1Word in reg. 6(2)(b) omitted (8.11.1989) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1865), regs. 1, 4 (with reg. 2(2))
F2Reg. 6(2)(d) and word inserted (8.11.1989) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1865), regs. 1, 4 (with reg. 2(2))
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 6 in force at 11.8.1986, see reg. 1
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