The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

[F1 End-of-series exemption E+W+S

61C.— (1) The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 10 and Annex 1 of European Community Regulation 715/2007 shall—

(a) in relation to complete end-of-series vehicles—

(i) of category N₁ class II and III, and

(ii) of category N₂ having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms,

be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 31st December 2012;

(b) in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles of category N₁ class I, be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2012;

(c) in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles—

(i) of category N₁ class II and III, and

(ii) of category N₂ having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms,

be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2013.

(2) The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 8 and Annex I of European Community Regulation 595/2009 shall—

(a) for category N₂ end-of-series vehicles having a reference mass exceeding 2,610 kilograms, and

(b) category N₃ end-of-series vehicles,

be deemed to be fulfilled, in relation to complete vehicles, for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th December 2014, or in the case of completed multi-stage build vehicles, beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 29th June 2015.

(3) For the purpose of paragraphs (1) and (2), a vehicle is an end-of-series vehicle if—

(a) three months or more before the relevant date, a certificate of conformity or a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(4) of the 1988 Act was in force for the vehicle, and the Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(1) of that Act or type approval certificate (as the case may be) had been issued by virtue of an emissions requirement that—

(i) then applied to the vehicle, but

(ii) apart from this regulation, would have ceased to apply on the relevant date, and

(b) it is in the territory of an EEA state on the relevant date.

(4) In this regulation—

“category N₁ class I” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass not exceeding 1,305 kilograms;

“category N₁ class II” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,305 kilograms but not exceeding 1,760 kilograms;

“category N₁ class III” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,760 kilograms;

“category N₂” and “category N₃” have the respective meanings given in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC;

“complete vehicle” means any vehicle which need not be completed in order to meet the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC;

“completed multi-stage build vehicle” means a vehicle resulting from the process of multi-stage type-approval which meets the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC;

“reference mass” has the meaning given in Article 3(3) of European Community Regulation 715/2007;

“relevant date” means—

(i)

in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (1) applies, the date on which the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 come into force, and

(ii)

in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (2) applies, 31st December 2013.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 61C substituted (14.1.2012) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3065), regs. 1, 4