The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

PART 3 U.K. Amendment of Northern Ireland legislation: European Communities Act 1972

Amendment of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 U.K.

4.—(1) The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 M1 is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 31A (approval of design, construction, etc., of motor vehicles) M2 , in paragraph (7)—

(a) for the definition of “EC certificate of conformity”, substitute—

““EC certificate of conformity” means—

(a) in the case of a light passenger vehicle, a certificate of conformity issued by a manufacturer under—

(i) regulation 4 of the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1992,

(ii) regulation 5 of the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998,

(iii) regulation 15(1) or 20(4) of the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009, or

(iv) any provision of the law of a member State other than the United Kingdom giving effect to Article 6 of the light passenger vehicle type approval Directive or Article 18 of the road vehicles type approval Directive;

(b) in the case of a vehicle to which the motorcycle type approval Regulation applies, a certificate of conformity issued by a manufacturer under Article 38 of that Regulation;

(c) in the case of a vehicle to which the tractor type approval Regulation applies, a certificate of conformity issued by a manufacturer under Article 33 of that Regulation;

(d) in the case of any other vehicle, a certificate of conformity issued by a manufacturer under—

(i) regulation 15(1) of the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009, or

(ii) any provision of the law of a member State other than the United Kingdom giving effect to Article 18 of the road vehicles type approval Directive;”;

(b) at the appropriate place, insert—

““the road vehicles type approval Directive” means Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5th September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles;”;

““the tractor type approval Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5th February 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles as it may be amended from time to time;”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 4 in force at 29.3.2019, see reg. 1(b)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2019/691, regs. 1, 2)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1).

M2 Article 31A was inserted by S.I. 1985/755 (N.I. 6) and amended by S.R.1993/246, S.I. 2006/1254 (N.I. 9) and S.I. 2018/235.