The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made: 6th January 1998

Laid before Parliament: 7th January 1998

Coming into force: 2nd February 1998

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988¹, 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:—

Commencement and citation

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 2nd February 1998.

Preliminary

2

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986² shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment to regulation 98 (stopping of engine when stationary)

3

In regulation 98(1), there shall be inserted at the end the words “or of exhaust emissions”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Helene Hayman — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 6th January 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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

Regulation 98 provides that, except in specified circumstances, the driver of a vehicle must stop the engine when the vehicle is stationary in order to prevent noise. The effect of these Regulations is to amend that provision so as to add the prevention of exhaust emissions as a reason for stopping the engine.

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