Section 63(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1972, as amended by the Designation of Approval Marks (European Communities) Regulations 1973, enacts that where any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party, or a Community obligation, provides—

for markings to be applied:to motor vehicle parts of any description to indicate conformity with a type approved by any country; orto a motor vehicle to indicate that the vehicle is fitted with motor vehicle parts of any description and either that the parts conform with a type approved by any country or that the vehicle is such that as so fitted it conforms with a type so approved; and

for motor vehicle parts or, as the case may be, motor vehicles, bearing those markings to be recognised as complying with the requirements imposed by the law of another country,

the Secretary of State may by regulations designate the markings as approval marks, and any markings so designated shall be deemed for the purposes of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (c. 29) to be a trade description, whether or not the markings fall within the definition of that expression in section 2 of that Act. This power is now vested in the Minister of Transport.

These Regulations revoke and, with amendments, re-enact the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1976 and the amending Regulations listed in Schedule 1. The chief amendments—

provide (in paragraph (3) of Regulation 5) for a marking which includes the common features and numbers of two or more Community Instruments at least one of which provides for the application of a common mark where the United Kingdom has approved the use of such mark (this provision has rendered superfluous paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the Regulations of 1976 as amended by the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1978 with the result that that paragraph is not re-enacted);

add to the markings which are designated as approval marks—three markings relating to special headlamps for agricultural or forestry tractors (items 1G, 1Hand 1I in Schedule 2),a marking relating to a filament lamp for a headlamp (item 2A in Schedule 2),three markings relating to special sealed beam headlamps for agricultural or forestry tractors (items 5G, 5H and 5I in Schedule 2),three markings relating to headlamps (items 8H, 8J and 8L in Schedule 2),two markings relating to a vehicle approved in respect of its brakes (items 13 and 13A in Schedule 2),a marking relating to reversing lamps (item 23A in Schedule 2),a marking relating to a vehicle approved in respect of the prevention of fire risks (item 34A in Schedule 2),two markings relating to head restraints (items 24 and 25 in Schedule 4), andthree markings relating to headlamps for agricultural or forestry tractors (items 26, 27 and 28 in Schedule 4); and

permit a variation in relation to the marking designated as an approval mark and shown at item 23A in Schedule 2 (paragraph 13 of Schedule 3).

Copies of the EEC Regulations referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Footnotes

Section 63(1) was amended by the Designation of Approval Marks (European Communities) Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/1193).

S.I. 1979/571.

Cmnd. 2535.

Cmnd. 3562.

By instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963.

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