The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made: 10th March 1999

Laid before Parliament: 22nd March 1999

Coming into force: 14th April 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated¹ for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972² for the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 14th April 1999.

• (2) The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998³ shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments to regulation 15 (duty to give reasons etc)

2

In regulation 15(2)–

• (a) for subparagraph (b), there shall be substituted–

(b) regulation 9(2), (3) or (9),

• (b) in subparagraph (d), for the words “regulation 11(10) or (11)” there shall be substituted “regulation 11(11) or (12)”.

Amendments to Schedule 1

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

• (2) In the Table, in item 2 after the last entry in the third column there shall be inserted–

• (3) In the Table, in item 6 after the entry there shall be inserted in the third and fourth columns–

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Larry Whitty — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 10th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998 (the “1998 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 makes some minor drafting amendments to Regulation 15 of the 1998 Regulations.

Regulation 3 inserts references to recent EC Directives in items 2 and 6 in the Table in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Regulations.

Copies of the EC Directives referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office.

Footnotes