The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 No. 1078

[F1 SCHEDULE 2A E+W+S VEHICLES FOR WHICH A MINISTER'S APPROVAL CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN ISSUED UNDER THE MOTOR VEHICLES (APPROVAL) REGULATIONS 1996

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (1.7.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction And Use) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3017), regs. 1, 6, Sch.

PART I E+W+S INTERPRETATION

General Interpretation E+W+S

1.— (1) In this Schedule—

“the Approval Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996;

“approval certificate” means a Minister’s approval certificate in the form prescribed by the Approval Regulations;

“approval date”, in relation to a vehicle in respect of which an approval certificate has been issued, is the date that the certificate was issued;

“goods vehicle approval certificate” means an approval certificate which appears to have been issued on the basis that the vehicle is a vehicle to which Part III of the Approval Regulations applies;

“passenger vehicle approval certificate” means an approval certificate which appears to have been issued on the basis that the vehicle is a vehicle to which Part II of the Approval Regulations applies.

Interpretation of references to a vehicle complying with the approval requirements and to a vehicle exempt from the approval requirements E+W+S

2.— (1) Subject to paragraph 3, references in this Schedule to a vehicle complying with or being exempt from the approval requirements shall be construed in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), a vehicle in respect of which a goods vehicle approval certificate has been issued shall be regarded as complying with or exempt from the approval requirements in relation to a specified subject matter if and only if it for the time being satisfies at least one of the conditions in regulation 6(5) of the Approval Regulations in relation to that subject matter.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), a vehicle in respect of which a passenger vehicle approval certificate has been issued shall be regarded as complying with or exempt from the approval requirements in relation to a specified subject matter if and only if it for the time being satisfies at least one of the conditions in regulation 4(5) of the Approval Regulations in relation to that subject matter.

(4) A vehicle in respect of which an approval certificate has been issued shall be regarded as neither complying with nor being exempt from the approval requirements in relation to any subject matter if—

(a) the certificate is a goods vehicle approval certificate and the vehicle is not for the time being a vehicle to which Part III of the Approval Regulations applies; or

(b) the certificate is a passenger vehicle approval certificate and the vehicle is not for the time being a vehicle to which Part II of the Approval Regulations applies.

(5) For the purposes of this paragraph, the Approval Regulations shall have effect with the omission of regulations 4(8) and 6(7).]