The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1985

Made: 29th October 1985

Laid before Parliament: 11th November 1985

Coming into Operation: 2nd December 1985

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 47(1) and 50(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1972[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 199(2) of the said Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1985, and shall come into operation on 2nd December 1985.

2

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984 are hereby amended so that in Regulation 3 (Application), in paragraph (2), at the end of sub-paragraph (i) “or” is omitted, for the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (j) there is substituted “;” and there are added the following sub-paragraphs:—

(k) a motor vehicle for which a first licence was granted under the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972[^f00003] on or after 2nd December 1985; or (l) a motor vehicle in respect of which there exists a certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 31A of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00004]

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for Transport — 29th October 1985

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984 by exempting from the application of those Regulations a motor vehicle which is first registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 on or after 2nd December 1985 or a motor vehicle in respect of which there exists a certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 31A of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: , as amended and extended by section 10 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

[^f00003]: 1972 c. 10 (N.I.).

[^f00004]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I.1), as amended by the Road Traffic (Type Approval) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/755 (N.I.6)).