The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020

Interpretation

9.—(1) A vehicle is a rebuilt vehicle if it—

(a) is a vehicle to which the approval authority is required to assign a vehicle identification number,

(b) is not an amateur built vehicle or a vehicle manufactured using parts of a registered vehicle, and

(c) has been rebuilt using a replacement chassis, or an integral chassis body, which is of the same design and construction as that of the original vehicle and which—

(i) was supplied for the purpose without having been previously used, or

(ii) previously formed part of a vehicle registered under the 1994 Act or any earlier Act providing for the licensing and registration of mechanically propelled vehicles.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) the approval authority is required to assign a vehicle identification number to a vehicle where it appears to the authority upon receipt of an application under regulation 18 that the vehicle does not have a vehicle identification number which—

(a) satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph 3 of the Annex to Council Directive 76/114/EEC(1),

(b) has previously been assigned under this Schedule, or

(c) if it does not fall within paragraph (a) or (b), is adequate for the purpose of enabling the vehicle to be identified.

(1)

OJ No. L 24, 30.1.1976, p. 1, as last amended by Directive 2013/15/EU (OJ No. L 158, 10.6.2013, p. 172). This Directive was revoked by Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 (OJ No. L 200, 31.7.2009, p. 1) with effect from 31st October 2010.