LegalizeThe Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981
- (b) in so far as it consists of sub-paragraph (d) in the case of a vehicle registered before 1st April 1959 if means are provided (where necessary) to prevent light from the interior of the vehicle from incommoding the driver; and
- (c) in so far as it consists of sub-paragraphs (g) and (h) in the case of a vehicle registered before 1st April 1959.
SCHEDULE 3 (see Regulation 5) — CONDITIONS PRESCRIBED IN REGULATIONS IN PART II, OR PROVISIONS THEREOF, APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN VEHICLES BEARING A DESIGNATED APPROVAL MARK
- Regulation 6 (Stability);
- Regulation 7 (Suspension);
- Regulation 8 (Guard rails);
- Regulation 9 (Brakes);
- Regulation 10 (Brake and Steering Connections);
- Regulation 11 (Locking of nuts);
- Regulation 12 (Steering);
- Regulation 14 (Exhaust pipe);
- Regulation 15 (Luggage racks);
- Regulation 16 (Artificial lighting);
- Regulation 17 (Electrical equipment);
- Regulation 18 (Body);
- Regulation 23 (Doors);
- Regulation 24 (Positioning and operation of emergency exits);
- Paragraph (1)(a) and (h) of Regulation 28 (Seats);
- Regulation 29 (Passenger protection);
- Regulation 30 (Ventilation);
- Regulation 31 (Driver's accommodation);
- Regulation 32 (Windscreens);
- Regulation 33 (Passengers' communication);
- Regulation 34 (General construction).
SCHEDULE 4 (See Regulation 35) — FIRE EXTINGUISHING APPARATUS
PART I
(i) A foam-producing fire extinguisher complying in all respects with the specification issued by the British Standards Institution in respect of Portable Fire Extinguishers of the Foam Type (Chemical) and numbered B.S. 740: Part I: 1948.
(ii) A foam-producing fire extinguisher complying in all respects with the specification issued by the British Standards Institution in respect of Portable Fire Extinguishers of the Foam Type (Gas Pressure) and number B.S. 740: Part II: 1952.
(iii) A soda acid chemical fire extinguisher complying in all respects with the specification issued by the British Standards Institution in respect of Portable Fire Extinguishers of the Water Type (Soda Acid) and numbered B.S. 138:1948.
(iv) A water fire extinguisher complying in all respects with the specification issued by the British Standards Institution in respect of Portable Fire Extinguishers of the Water Type (Gas Pressure) and numbered B.S. 1382:1948.
(v) A bromochlorodifluoromethane (B.C.F.) fire extinguisher with a liquid capacity of at least 1·35 kilograms, or two such extinguishers having an aggregate such capacity, complying in all respects with the specification issued by the British Standards Institution in respect of Portable Fire Extinguishers of the Halogenated Hydrocarbon Type and numbered B.S. 1721:1968.
PART II
A fire extinguisher which complies in all respects with the specification for portable fire extinguishers issued by the British Standards Institution, published on 31st December 1976 and numbered B.S. 5423: 77 and which either—
contains water with a minimum test fire rating of 8A, or
contains foam with a minimum test fire rating of 8A and 21B, or
contains and is marked to indicate that it contains halon 1211 or halon 1301 with, in either case, a minimum test fire rating of 21B.
SCHEDULE 5 (see Regulation 36) — FIRST AID EQUIPMENT
(i) Ten antiseptic wipes, foil packed.
(ii) One conforming disposable bandage (not less than 7·5 centimetres wide).
(iii) Two triangular bandages.
(iv) One packet of 24 assorted adhesive dressings.
(v) Three large sterile unmedicated ambulance dressings (not less than 15·0 centimetres × 20·0 centimetres).
(vi) Two sterile eye pads, with attachments.
(vii) Twelve assorted safety pins.
(viii) One pair of rustless blunt-ended scissors.
SCHEDULE 6 (see Regulation 47)
(Form of Certificate of Initial Fitness)
SCHEDULE 7 (see Regulation 51)
(Form of Type Approval Certificate)
SCHEDULE 8 (see Regulation 52)
(Form of Declaration of Conformity to an Approved Type Vehicle)
SCHEDULE 9 (see Regulation 54)
(Form of Certificate of Conformity)
Signed
Norman Fowler — Minister of Transport — 23rd February 1981
Explanatory note
EXPLANATORY NOTE
1.These Regulations revoke the Regulations specified in Schedule 1 which dealt with the conditions of fitness, equipment and use required in relation to certain public service vehicles, and the approval under section 130 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 of a vehicle as a type vehicle and certificates as to the conformity of a vehicle to a type vehicle.
In so far as the provisions of the Regulations which are revoked were cast in imperial units of measurement they are reproduced cast in metric units as required by Council Directive 80/181/EEC of 20th December 1979. In no respect does this metrication make the requirements more stringent.
These Regulations also make minor amendments to the form in which some of the provisions were cast in the Regulations which are revoked.
As regards older vehicles, the Regulations which are revoked contained exemptions from certain of their requirements. For example some of these exemptions related to a vehicle registered on or before 1st July 1931; some related to a vehicle registered before 1st October 1936. The possibility of any such vehicle being in use on a road and requiring a certificate of initial fitness (other than such a certificate which, by virtue of section 17(2) of the Transport Act 1980 is deemed to be a certificate of initial fitness) is so extremely remote that it is considered no longer justifiable to continue in these Regulations detailed exemptions as regards such a vehicle. Accordingly no exemptions as to existing vehicles are retained unless the date of registration before which they apply is 1st January 1947 or later.
The Regulations relating to the conditions of fitness of the vehicles in point were keyed to the requisite certificate of fitness lasting, in accordance with section 129(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1960, for seven years. Under the Transport Act 1980 that section has been repealed, and septennial certificates of fitness are replaced by certificates of initial fitness to which no limit of time is attached. Part II of these Regulations prescribe, under section 17(1) of the 1980 Act, the conditions of fitness which must be fulfilled before a certificate of initial fitness is issued. These conditions extend to an articulated bus following the amendment to section 191 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 which has been made by section 63 of the 1980 Act.
Part III of the Regulations continues the present provisions relating to the equipment required to be carried on a vehicle of the kind in point. Part IV continues the present restrictions on the manner in which such a vehicle may be used.
Regulations 46 and 47 in Part V prescribe the manner of application and the fee for a certificate of initial fitness and the form of such a certificate. Regulations 48 to 54 in Part V of the Regulations contain provisions relating to—
applications for type approval, the fees for a type approval certificate, and the form of a type approval certificate, and
declarations as to conformity with a type vehicle, and the fee for and the form of a certificate of conformity.
By virtue of Regulation 53 the fee for a certificate of conformity is increased from £1 to £5.
Regulation 55 contains provisions as to the Minister being notified of the registration of a vehicle after the issue of a certificate of initial fitness or a certificate of conformity.
Regulation 56 contains provisions relating to appeals to the Minister of Transport against the refusal of a certifying officer to grant a certificate of initial fitness or a type approval certificate.
Regulation 57 contains provisions as to duplicate certificates.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: section 130 of which Act has been amended by section 43 of, and paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 5 to, the Transport Act 1980 (c.34); section 159 of which Act has been amended by section 38 of the Transport Act 1980; and section 160(1) of which Act has been amended by section 43 of, and paragraph 11 of Part I of Schedule 5 to, the Transport Act 1980.
[^f00002]: As regards 1960 c. 16 by S.I. 1970/1681 and 1979/571, and as regards 1972 c. 20 by S.I. 1979/571.
[^f00003]: section 260(2) of which Act has been amended by section 43 of, and paragraph 15 of Part I of Schedule 5 to, the Transport Act 1980.
[^f00004]: Cmnd. 2535.
[^f00005]: Cmnd. 3562.
[^f00006]: By Instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963.
[^f00007]: the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1978/1234.
[^f00008]: to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
[^f00009]: (SE 1971 (III), p. 746).
[^f00010]: O.J. L128, 26.5.1979, p. 12
[^f00011]: , as amended by S.I. 1980/582.
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