The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made: 8th September 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th September 1993

Coming into force: 1st October 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by Sections 54(1), 61 and 63 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with 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) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st October 1993.

Preliminary

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The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984[^f00002] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments as to exhaust emissions

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• (1) In Regulation 4—

• (a) in paragraph (1A), for “not being of a description specified in column (4) of item 4G of Part I of Schedule 1” there shall be substituted “, other than a vehicle with fewer than 4 wheels or fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas”;

• (b) in paragraph (3A), for “4E and 4F” there shall be substituted “4E, 4F and 4G”; and

• (c) in paragraph (11), for “4F and 27” there shall be substituted “4F, 4G and 27”.

• (2) In Part I of Schedule 1—

• (a) in item 4G, in column (6), there shall be inserted “See regulation 4(11) and Schedule 1B.”;

• (b) for item 4H there shall be substituted the item set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

• (c) after item 4J there shall be inserted the item set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

• (3) In Part I of Schedule 1B, in paragraph 2, after “4F,” there shall be inserted “4G,”.

• (4) In Part II of Schedule 1B, after the entry relating to item 4F in Part I of Schedule 1, there shall be inserted the following entry:—

Amendments as to rear view mirrors

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In Part I of Schedule 1, after item 10B, there shall be inserted the item set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Amendments as to brakes

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In Part I of Schedule 1—

• (a) in item 13E, in column (6), in relation to ECE Regulation 13 as revised, amended and corrected up to 26th November 1984 and in relation to ECE Regulation 13 as revised, amended and corrected up to 29th July 1988, there shall be inserted “31.3.1994”; and

• (b) for items 13F and 13G there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.

Amendments as to noise and silencers

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In Part I of Schedule 1—

• (a) for item 14E there shall be substituted the item set out in Schedule 5 to these Regulations; and

• (b) after item 14F there shall be inserted the item set out in Schedule 6 to these Regulations.

Amendments as to seats and anchorages

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In Part I of Schedule 1, for item 16 there shall be substituted the item set out in Schedule 7 to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1

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Vehicles propelled by spark ignition engines.

2

Vehicles whose maximum gross weight does not exceed 3500kg.

3

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.

4

Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

SCHEDULE 2

1

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

2

Vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas.

SCHEDULE 3

SCHEDULE 4

SCHEDULE 5

SCHEDULE 6

SCHEDULE 7

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 8th September 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984.

Regulation 4 of the 1984 Regulations is amended so that from 1st October 1993, the type approval requirements relating to exhaust emissions then in force shall apply to a vehicle (other than one with fewer than four wheels or one fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas) regardless of the date of manufacture.

The type approval requirements relating to exhaust emissions are revised so as to:—

• (a) introduce a new alternative requirement as a result of an amendment made on 30th December 1992 to ECE Regulation 83;

• (b) introduce a new alternative requirement as a result of an amendment made on 30th December 1992 to ECE Regulation 49; and

• (c) introduce the requirements of Council Directive 93/59/EEC as a mandatory standard and remove the option of complying with Council Directive 91/441/EEC or ECE Regulation 83 as amended, from 1st October 1993 for new vehicle types and from 1st October 1994 for existing types.

The type approval requirements relating to rear view mirrors are revised so as to:—

• (a) introduce a new alternative requirement as a result of Council Directives 86/562/EEC and 88/321/EEC; and

• (b) introduce a new alternative requirement as a result of ECE Regulation 46 as revised, amended and corrected up to 18th July 1988.

The type approval requirements relating to brakes are revised so as to:—

• (a) introduce in relation to certain vehicles, two new alternative requirements as a result of Council Directive 93/14/EEC and an amendment made on 28th November 1990 to ECE Regulation 78;

• (b) introduce, initially as an alternative to the existing requirements, the requirements of Commission Directive 91/422/EEC, as corrected; and

• (c) replace, from 1st April 1994, the existing requirements, apart from ECE Regulation 13 as revised, corrected and amended up to 22nd November 1990, with the requirements of Commission Directive 91/422/EEC, as corrected.

The type approval requirements relating to noise are revised so as to introduce two new alternative requirements as a result of Council Directive 92/97/EEC and ECE Regulation 51, as amended up to 12th September 1991.

The type approval requirements relating to seats and anchorages are revised so as to introduce a new alternative requirement as a result of a revision made on 28th January 1990 to ECE Regulation 17.

Copies of the EEC Directives and ECE Regulations (and amendments) referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 52.

[^f00002]: S.I.1984/981; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1984/1401 and 1761, 1985/1651, 1986/739, 1987/1509, 1988/1522, 1989/1580, 1990/94 and 1839, 1991/1022 and 1971, and 1992/1341, 2161, 2908 and 3173.