The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 1404

Road Traffic

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

28th May 2012

Laid before Parliament

30th May 2012

Coming into force

25th June 2012

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1).

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 25th June 2012.

Revocations

2.  The revocations set out in the Schedule have effect.

Amendment of Regulations

3.  The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) are amended as follows.

4.  In paragraph 7 of Part I of Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles), for subparagraph (b) substitute—

“(b) “the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles - Seventeenth Edition” (ISBN 978-0-9549352-7-6) published by the Department for Transport.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Mike Penning

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

28th May 2012

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE Revocations

(1) Regulations revoked	(2) References	(3) Extent of revocation
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1996	S.I. 1996/2085	Regulation 4
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997	S.I. 1997/1544	Regulation 4
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1998	S.I.1998/1563	Regulation 4
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1999	S.I. 1999/1521	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1999	S.I. 1999/1959	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2000	S.I. 2000/1434	Regulation 3
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2001	S.I. 2001/1825	Regulation 5
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002	S.I. 2002/1474	Regulation 4
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2003	S.I. 2003/1690	Regulation 6
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2004	S.I. 2004/1706	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2005	S.I. 2005/1641	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2006	S.I. 2006/1756	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2007	S.I. 2007/1817	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2008	S.I. 2008/1702	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009	S.I. 2009/1806	The whole Regulations
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2010	S.I. 2010/2060	Regulation 2(3)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (“the 1986 Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends the definition of “the emissions publication” in Schedule 7B to the 1986 Regulations by referring to the most recent (seventeenth) edition of the Department for Transport publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles” (ISBN 978-0-9549352-7-6). The publication contains in-use emissions limits that petrol-engined cars and light vans are required to meet for the purpose of MoT and roadside emissions tests. The publication updates information on new models of such vehicles which have come onto the market since the previous amending Regulations (S.I. 2010/2060) came into force on 9th September 2010. It also revises a small amount of data on existing models.

The opportunity has been taken to revoke earlier spent instruments or provisions relating to amendments updating references to previous editions of the emissions publication in Schedule 7B.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. The Explanatory Memorandum for these Regulations is available alongside this instrument on the website www.legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

1988 c.52; section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), section 48 and Schedule 4, paragraph 50, and section 83 and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1078; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/2210 and 2010/2060.