The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations 1996

Made: 11th December 1996

Laid before Parliament: 12th December 1996

Coming into force: 3rd January 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00001], 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 Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 3rd January 1997.

Preliminary

2

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986[^f00002] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment to regulation 4 (application and exemptions)

3

In column 3 of item 4 in the Table in regulation 4, for “71 and 75 to 79” there shall be substituted “71, 75 to 79 and 93A”.

New regulation 93A (supplementary braking requirements for vehicles carrying dangerous goods)

4

After regulation 93 there shall be inserted the regulation set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendments to Table II of Schedule 2 (ECE Regulations)

5

In Schedule 2, in Table II after item 4B there shall be inserted the following item—

THE SCHEDULE — NEW REGULATION 93A OF THE ROAD VEHICLES (CONSTRUCTION AND USE) REGULATIONS 1986

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Bowis — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 11th December 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (“the 1986 Regulations”).

Regulation 4 and the Schedule insert into the 1986 Regulations a new regulation 93A which applies with modifications to certain vehicles carrying explosives, the supplementary braking requirements contained in the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (“the ADR Agreement”).

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the 1986 Regulations so as to exempt vehicles in the service of a visiting force or a headquarters from the new regulation 93A.

Regulation 5 makes a consequential amendment to Table II of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Regulations (ECE Regulations).

These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission pursuant to Directive 83/189/EEC of 28th March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (O.J. 1983 L109, p. 9) as amended by Council Directive 88/182/EEC of 22nd March 1988 (O.J. 1988 L81, p. 75) and European Parliament and Council Directive 94/10/EEC of 23rd March 1994 (O.J. 1994 L100, p. 30).

Copies of the ADR Agreement and of Directives and ECE Regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 52. Section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 50 and Schedule 8.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1078. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/352, 1994/14, 1995/1201.

[^f00003]: “ECE Regulation” is defined in regulation 3(2) of, and Table II of Schedule 2 to, the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

[^f00004]: O.J. No. L202, 6.9.71, p. 37.

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L233, 22.9.91 p. 21.