Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1502

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

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(a) in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54(1), 61, 63 and 66 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[1] ("the 1988 Act"), and

(b) being a Minister designated[2] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[3] in relation to 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 conferred by that section and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf,

and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the 1988 Act, hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

Citation and Commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 16th July 1997.

Preliminary
     2. The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984[4] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments to regulation 9 (form of certificate)
     3.  - (1) Regulation 9 shall be amended as follows:

    (2) In paragraph (2), for "and (5)" there shall be substituted ", (5) and (6)".

    (3) For paragraph (5), there shall be substituted the following paragraphs - 

    " (5) Subject to paragraph (6), a Minister's approval certificate for any vehicle shall be in a form prescribed by paragraph (4), if - 


(a) the application was made on the basis that the vehicle is a low volume type approval vehicle; or

(b) the applicant has otherwise requested the certificate to be in a form prescribed by that paragraph,



and the Secretary of State is satisfied that the vehicle is a low volume type approval vehicle.

    (6) Upon the issue of a Minister's approval certificate for any vehicle, where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the requirements of paragraph (7) are fulfilled and the applicant so requests, the certificate shall be endorsed with a statement that he is so satisfied.

    (7) The requirements of this paragraph are that - 



(a) an EC certificate of conformity has been issued in respect of the vehicle;

(b) since the EC certificate of conformity was issued the vehicle has been altered as described in the information document which accompanied the application under these Regulations;

(c) notwithstanding the alterations the vehicle is still of the type in respect of which the EC certificate of conformity was issued, and - 


(i) if the EC certificate of conformity does not describe the vehicle as a variant, the vehicle has not as a consequence of the alterations become a variant of that type,

(ii) if the EC certificate of conformity describes the vehicle as a variant of that type, the vehicle has not as a consequence of the alterations become a different variant of that type;



(d) the EC certificate would still have had effect had the alterations not been made (whether or not that certificate in fact still has effect).



    (8) For the purposes of paragraph (7) - 



(a) "EC certificate of conformity" has the same meaning as in Part II of the 1988 Act;

(b) "type" and "variant" have the meanings given in Annex IIB of Council Directive 70/156/EEC[5], as amended by Council Directive 87/403/EEC[6] and Council Directive 92/53/EEC[7]."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport

11th June 1997

[2] S.I. 1972/1811.back

[3] 1972 c.68.back

[4] S.I. 1984/981; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/2908 and 3173.back

[5] OJ No. L42, 23. 70, p.1.back

[6] OJ No. L220, 8.8.87, p.44.back

[7] OJ No. L225, 10.8.92, p.1.back