The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1992

Made: 8th December 1992

Laid before Parliament: 9th December 1992

Coming into force: 1st January 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54(1) and 61 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00001] and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

Preliminary

2

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982[^f00002] shall be further amended in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.

Amendments

3

• (1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) shall be amended as follows.

• (2) For the definition of “the type approval requirements”, there shall be substituted the following definition—

• “the type approval requirements” means—

• (a) the weights mentioned in regulation 5; and

• (b) the requirements with respect to the design, construction, equipment or marking requirements of vehicles or vehicle parts which—

• (i) relate to the items numbered in column (1) and listed in column (2) of Part I of Schedule 1; and

• (ii) are contained in instruments, other documents, or Parts of that Schedule, and consist of the requirements specified against each such item in column (3) of Part I of that Schedule (subject to such modifications and additions as are set in Part I of that Schedule;

4

In regulation 4 (type approval requirements—application)—

• (a) before the words “Schedule 1” whenever they occur there shall be inserted the words “Part I of”; and

• (b) paragraph (6) shall be omitted.

5

• (1) Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows.

• (2) Before the heading “TYPE APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS” at the beginning of the Schedule there shall be inserted the heading “PART I” and, accordingly the Table in the Schedule shall have effect as Part I of the Schedule.

• (3) In the Table, for item 9 there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

• (4) After the Table, there shall be inserted the provisions set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

6

In Schedules 1A, 1B, 3 and 4, before the words “Schedule 1” wherever they occur there shall be inserted the words “Part I of”.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kenneth Carlisle — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 8th December 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) Great Britain) Regulations 1982.

The effect of the amendments is that a motor vehicle will be able to meet the requirements relating to speed limiters if, instead of meeting the previous requirements, if meets the requirements of the Council Directive 92/24/EEC. Regulations 5(3) and (4) revise the requirements accordingly.

The opportunity has been taken in regulations 3 and 4 to make some drafting improvements in the way in which the type approval requirements are prescribed.

Copies of the EEC Directive 92/24/EEC, referred to in these Regulations, can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 52.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/1271; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/1508 and 1992/25 and 1342.

[^f00003]: “Construction and Use Regulations” is defined in regulation 2(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982 as meaning the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1078). Relevant amendments to the 1986 Regulations are made by S.I. 1988/271 and 1524, 1991/1527 and 1992/422.