Amendments to regulation 16 (braking systems of other vehicles)

4.—(1) Regulation 16 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2) for the words “regulation 15(1)” onwards there shall be substituted the words “regulation 15(1), (1A) or (1C), or which complies with Community Directive 79/489, 85/647 or 88/194 or ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04, 13.05 or 13.06”.

(3) For paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

(5) Subject to paragraphs (5B) and (6), the braking system of a motor cycle to which this regulation applies and which is—

(a)of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table below; and

(b)first used on or after 1st April 1987 and before 22nd May 1995;

shall comply with ECE Regulation 13.05, 78 or 78.01 in relation to the category of vehicles specified in that item in column 3.

(5A) Subject to paragraph (6), the braking system of a motor cycle to which this regulation applies and which is—

(a)of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table below; and

(b)first used on or after 22nd May 1995;

shall comply with ECE Regulation 78.01 in relation to the category of vehicles specified in that item in column 3.

TABLE

(Regulation 16(5) and (5A))

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ItemClass of VehicleVehicle Category in ECE Regulations
1Vehicles (without a sidecar attached) with two wheels, an engine capacity not exceeding 50 cc and a maximum design speed not exceeding 50 km/h.L1
2Vehicles with three wheels (including two-wheeled vehicles with a sidecar attached) and with an engine capacity not exceeding 50 cc and a maximum design speed not exceeding 50 km/h.L2
3

Vehicles with two wheels (without a sidecar attached) and with—

(a)

an engine capacity exceeding 50 cc, or

(b)

a maximum design speed exceeding 50 km/h.

L3
4

Vehicles with two wheels, a sidecar attached and—

(a)

an engine capacity exceeding 50 cc, or

(b)

a maximum design speed exceeding 50 km/h.

L4

(4) Paragraph (5A) shall be renumbered as paragraph (5B).