PART 4 U.K.AMENDMENTS TO PART 4 OF THE 2009 REGULATIONS: NATIONAL SMALL SERIES TYPE APPROVAL AND INDIVIDUAL APPROVAL

8.—(1) Regulation 25 (grant of national small series type approval) is amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) The approval authority may, when giving notice of its decision under paragraph (1)(c), notify the applicant manufacturer in writing that it has in making its decision waived the requirements of any of the following paragraphs of Annex II to the Framework Directive—

(a) paragraph 1.1.1(c);

(b) paragraph 2.1.1(h);

(c) paragraph 3.1.1(d);

(d) paragraph 4.1.1(e);

(e) paragraph 5.1.1(f);

(g) paragraph 6.1.1(f).”.

(3) In paragraph (12)—

(a) for the definition of “maximum permitted number”, substitute—

“maximum permitted number” means—

(a) for any type of vehicle other than one specified in sub-paragraph (b), the number shown in column (2) of Table 1 in relation to the vehicle category to which that type belongs; and

(b) for a type of vehicle specified in column (1) of Table 2 which exceeds 4 metres in height the number shown in column (2) of that Table 2 in relation to the vehicle category to which that type belongs;”;

(b) for the Table at the end, substitute the following Tables—

“Table 1

Maximum permitted numbers

(1) Vehicle category	(2) Maximum permitted number
M1	100
M2 or M3	250
N1	250
N2 or N3	250
O1 or O2	500
O3 or O4	250

Table 2

Maximum permitted numbers

(1) Vehicle Category	(2) Maximum permitted number
M2 or M3	1,000
N2 or N3	1,200
O3 or O4	2,000”.