1. These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.
2. The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982(1) shall be further amended in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
3.—(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) shall be amended as follows.
(2) For the definition of “the type approval requirements”, there shall be substituted the following definition—
““the type approval requirements” means—”
(a)the weights mentioned in regulation 5; and
(b)the requirements with respect to the design, construction, equipment or marking requirements of vehicles or vehicle parts which—
(i)relate to the items numbered in column (1) and listed in column (2) of Part I of Schedule 1; and
(ii)are contained in instruments, other documents, or Parts of that Schedule, and consist of the requirements specified against each such item in column (3) of Part I of that Schedule (subject to such modifications and additions as are set in Part I of that Schedule;
4. In regulation 4 (type approval requirements—application)—
(a)before the words “Schedule 1” whenever they occur there shall be inserted the words “Part I of”; and
(b)paragraph (6) shall be omitted.
5.—(1) Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows.
(2) Before the heading “TYPE APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS” at the beginning of the Schedule there shall be inserted the heading “PART I” and, accordingly the Table in the Schedule shall have effect as Part I of the Schedule.
(3) In the Table, for item 9 there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(4) After the Table, there shall be inserted the provisions set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
6. In Schedules 1A, 1B, 3 and 4, before the words “Schedule 1” wherever they occur there shall be inserted the words “Part I of”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Kenneth Carlisle
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
8th December 1992