The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made: 20th August 1994

Laid before Parliament: 30th August 1994

Coming into force: 1st October 1994.

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 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 for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st October 1994.

Preliminary

2

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

Amendments to Schedule 1B (date of application and cessation of certain type approval requirements)

3

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

• (2) For paragraph 1 of Part I there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(1) This Part of this Schedule has effect subject to Parts III and IV of this Schedule.

• (3) After Part III, there shall be added the provisions set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS TO BE INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1B TO THE MOTOR VEHICLES (TYPE APPROVAL FOR GOODS VEHICLES) (GREAT BRITAIN) REGULATIONS 1982

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Steven Norris — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 20th August 1994

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 type approval requirements relating to exhaust emissions are revised so as to defer until 1st October 1995, the compulsory application of the requirements of Council Directive 93/59/EEC in relation to a limited class of vehicles.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 52.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/1271; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/697 and 1402, 1985/46, 1986/427 and 1089, 1987/ 1508, 1988/1523, 1989/1579, 1991/1021 and 1970, 1992/25, 1342 and 3084, and 1993/2200.

[^f00003]: 1971 c. 10; the Act was extended to Northern Ireland by section 10 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31) and was repealed by Schedule 5 to the Vehicles Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22).

[^f00004]: 1994 c. 22.

[^f00005]: Cm 2073 and 2183.