The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) Regulations 1998

Interpretation E+W+S

3.  In these Regulations—

(a) “EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(1);

[F1 (aa) “ECE Regulation 22” means Regulation No. 22 set out in Addendum 21 to the UNECE Agreement;

(aaa) “ECE Regulation 22.05” means ECE Regulation 22 as amended by the 05 series of amendments and all previous amendments in force on 30th June 2000;

(aaaa) “the UNECE Agreement” means the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for the reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions, to which the United Kingdom is a party by virtue of an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963;]

(b) a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations; and

(c) a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference occurs.

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 3(aa)-(aaaa) inserted (30.6.2000) by The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1488), regs. 1(1), 2

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in force at 21.8.1998, see reg. 1

(1)

Cm 2073 and 2183.