The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made: 16th April 2007

Coming into operation: 10th July 2007

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Citation and commencement

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General interpretation

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Interpretation of instruments referred to in Schedule 1

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Interpretation of “low volume type approval vehicle”

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Application

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Modifications in relation to vehicles to which the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 apply

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Type approval requirements — application

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Application for type approval

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Application for Department’s approval certificate

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Application for further type approval certificate

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Appeals

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Forms of certificates

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Duplicate certificates

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Keeping and inspection of records relating to certificates of conformity

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Authorisations to carry out examinations for type approval

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Notices

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Obligatory certificates

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Licences not to be issued for vehicles unless appropriate certificates are in force

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Revocation

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SCHEDULE 1

PART I — TYPE APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

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Vehicles the steering control of which has been specially constructed for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability.

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Vehicles with forward control, that is to say a vehicle in which the centre of the steering wheel is in the forward quarter of the total length of the vehicle (including any bumpers and over-riders).

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Vehicles the steering control of which has been specially constructed for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability.

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Vehicles with forward control, that is to say a vehicle in which the centre of the steering wheel is in the forward quarter of the total length of the vehicle (including any bumpers and over-riders).

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose gross vehicle weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose gross vehicle weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose gross vehicle weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas

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Vehicles not propelled by compression ignition engines.

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Vehicles whose maximum gross weight does not exceed 3500 kg.

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Vehicles with less than 4 wheels if they are constructed not to exceed 30 mph on the level under their own power or if they have an unladen weight of less than 400kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines with less than 4 wheels.

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Vehicles with an unladen mass of less than 400 kg.

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Vehicles with a design maximum speed of less than 30 mph.

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Vehicle fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines.

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Vehicles with less than 4 wheels if they are constructed not to exceed a speed of 30 mph on the level under their own power or if they have an unladen weight of less than 400 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles with 4 or more wheels.

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Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines and whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3500 kg.

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Vehicles with less than 4 wheels.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines.

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Vehicles with less than 4 wheels if they are constructed not to exceed a speed of 30 mph on the level under their own power or if they have an unladen weight of less than 400 kg.

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Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

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ECE Regulation 1 as revised on 26th October 1964 and corrected on 8th June 1965

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ECE Regulation 5 of 22nd May 1967 as corrected on 30th September 1968

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ECE Regulation 5 as revised on 29th August 1982

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ECE Regulation 8 as revised on 6th May 1974 and corrected on 2nd May 1977 and 21st June 1978

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ECE Regulation 20 of 1st March 1971

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ECE Regulation 31 of 2nd June 1975

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ECE Regulation 31 of 2nd June 1975 as amended on 7th February 1983

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British Standard Specification No. AU 40, part 4a, of 1966

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Council Directive 76/761/EEC of 27th July 1976.

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Vehicles of which the glass in the windscreens and other windows on the outside was manufactured in France and which is marked with the letters “TP GS” or “TP GS E” followed by a number being the number of a type approval certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the law of the French Republic.

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Vehicles constructed to be used for police purposes where the windscreens and all other windows are constructed of safety glazing or safety glass.

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Vehicles of which the glass in the windscreens and other windows on the outside was manufactured in France and which is marked with the letters “TP GS” or “TP GS E” followed by a number being the number of a type approval certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the law of the French Republic.

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Vehicles constructed to be used for police purposes where the windscreens and all other windows are constructed of safety glazing or safety glass.

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Vehicles of which the glass in the windscreens and other windows on the outside was manufactured in France and which is marked with the letters “TP GS” or “TP GS E” followed by a number being the number of a type approval certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the law of the French Republic.

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Vehicles constructed to be used for police purposes where the windscreens and all other windows are constructed of safety glazing or safety glass.

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Vehicles not fitted with the tyres mentioned in column (2).

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Vehicles fitted with tyres which bear on their side walls, after the figures denoting the tyre size, the code letter 'C'.

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Vehicles not fitted with the tyres mentioned in column (2).

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Vehicles fitted with tyres which bear on their side-walls, after the figures denoting the tyre size, the code letter “C”.

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Vehicles with other than spark ignition engines.

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Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles with other than spark ignition engines.

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Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

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Vehicles with other than compression ignition engines.

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Vehicles constructed or adapted to carry more than 5 passengers, excluding the driver.

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Vehicles over 2500 kg maximum gross weight.

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Off-road vehicles as defined by Annex II to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6th February 1970 (O.J. No. L42, 23.2.70, p. 1) as inserted by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 18th June 1992 (O.J. No. L225, 10.8.92, p. 1) and amended by Council Directive 1998/14/EC of 6th February 1998 (O.J. No. L91, 25.3.98, p. 1).

PART II — LOW VOLUME TYPE APPROVAL VEHICLES

INTERIOR FITTINGS

(See Item 18B in Part I)

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SCHEDULE 2 — Dates of Application of Items 25 and 26 of Part I of Schedule 1

PART I

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PART II

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Item	Description of vehicle	Date in cases where paragraph 3(a) of Part I applies
1.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of less than 1400 cc.	1.10.1991
2.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of not less than 1400 cc and not more than 2000 cc.	1.10.1993
3.	Vehicles with an engine capacity of more than 2000 cc and which— are constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver; or have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kilograms, not being, in either case, off-road vehicles.	1.10.1992

SCHEDULE 3

PART I

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PART II

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Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines, constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver, or with a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kilograms, not being an off-road vehicle in either case, and which has an engine capacity of—

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Other vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines with a maximum gross weight of—

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition, direct injection engines constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver, or with a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kilograms, not being an off-road vehicle, and which has an engine capacity of not less than 1400 cc and not more than 2000 cc.

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All other vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines.

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Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines with a maximum gross weight of—

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Vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines.

SCHEDULE 4

PART I

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PART II

Meaning of “type approval end of series vehicle”

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Meaning of “relevant vehicle” for the purposes of this Part

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Meaning of “specified number” for the purposes of this Part

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Circumstances in which a vehicle is to be regarded as having been in the territory of a relevant State for the purposes of this Part

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PART III — MEANING OF “LATE ENTRY INTO SERVICE VEHICLE” IN PART I

Meaning of “late entry into service vehicle” in paragraph 1

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Circumstances in which a vehicle is to be regarded as having been in the territory of a relevant State for the purposes of this Part

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SCHEDULE 5

PART I

PART II

PART III

SCHEDULE 6

PART I

PART II

SCHEDULE 7

PART I

PART II

PART III

SCHEDULE 8

PART I

PART II

SCHEDULE 9 — Regulations revoked

Title	Year and Number
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985	S.R. 1985 No. 294
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987	S.R. 1987 No. 389
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988	S.R. 1988 No. 405
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990	S.R. 1990 No. 84
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991	S.R. 1991 No. 408
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992	S.R. 1992 No. 86
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992	S.R. 1992 No. 508
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 38
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996	S.R. 1996 No. 156
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998	S.R. 1998 No. 363
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999	S.R. 1999 No. 234
Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 174

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 16th April 2007.

Stanley Duncan — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”; Articles 31A, 31C, 31D and 31E were inserted by S.I. 1985/755 (N.I. 6), Article 3; Articles 31A, 31D and 31E were amended by S.R. 1993 No. 246, regulations 4, 5 and 6 respectively; Article 31A was further amended by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18), Article 112(1) and Schedule 3, paragraph 5 and S.I. 2003/1099, regulation 4

[^f00002]: S.R. 1999 No. 454 as amended by S.R. 2001 Nos. 28, 173 and 241; S.R. 2002 Nos. 256, 294 and 375; S.R. 2003 Nos. 39, 145, 517 and 537; S.R. 2004 Nos. 44, 48, 67 and 360; S.R. 2005 Nos. 22, 249 and 402; and S.R. 2006 Nos. 32 and 246

[^f00003]: Cmnd. 2535

[^f00004]: Cmnd. 3562

[^f00005]: By an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963

[^f00006]: O.J. No. L42, 23.2.70, p. 1

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L220, 8.8.87, p. 44

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L225, 19.8.92, p. 1

[^f00009]: O.J. No. L264, 23.10.93, p. 49

[^f00010]: 1966 c. 42 (N.I.); Part VI was substituted by paragraph 49 of Schedule 4 to 1974 c. 39

[^f00011]: S.R. 1992 No. 227

[^f00012]: 1994 c. 22

[^f00013]: 1975 c. 25

[^f00014]: 1973 c. 41; subsection (5) was amended by 1976 c. 34 s. 44, Sch. 6 and 1985 c. 9 s. 30, Sch. 2

[^f00015]: S.I. 1999/1736

[^f00016]: S.I. 1995/2518, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00017]: 1971 c. 10

[^f00018]: S.R. 2001 No. 172 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 30

[^f00019]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00020]: O.J. No. L42, 2.3.70, p. 1

[^f00021]: O.J. No. L220, 8.8.87, p. 44

[^f00022]: O.J. No. L225, 10.8.92, p. 1

[^f00027]: O.J. L76, 6.4.70, p. 1 (SE 1970(I) p. 171); amending instruments are listed in item 4L in Part I of Schedule 1

[^f00028]: O.J. L36, 9.2.88, p. 33

[^f00029]: O.J. L295, 25.10.91, p. 1

[^f00030]: 1994 c. 22

[^f00031]: 1972 c. 10 (N.I.)

[^f00032]: 1971 c. 10; the Act was extended to Northern Ireland by section 10 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31)

Editorial notes

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