Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 828

      The Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2000 No. 828

TRACTORS

The Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

  Made 21st March 2000 
  Laid before Parliament 22nd March 2000 
  Coming into force 17th April 2000 

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] ("the Act") in relation to any type approval scheme for agricultural or forestry tractors and their components, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(2) of the Act and all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:-

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 17th April 2000.

Application
    
2. The Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) Regulations 1988[3] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions.

Amendments to regulation 3 (interpretation)
     3.  - (1) Regulation 3(1) shall be amended as follows.

    (2) In the definition of "agricultural or forestry tractor", for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted-

      " (c) is designed so to have a maximum speed of not less than 6, and not more than 40, kilometres per hour;".

Amendments to Schedule 2
    
4.  - (1) The Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Schedule 2.

    (2) With effect from 1st July 2000 the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Schedule 2 as substituted by paragraph (1).

    (3) With effect from 1st January 2001 the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Schedule 2 as substituted by paragraph (2) above.

    (4) With effect from 1st October 2004 the Schedule set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Schedule 2 as substituted by paragraph (3) above.

Revocations
    
5. The following regulations are hereby revoked-



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

21st March 2000



SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 4(1)








SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 4(2)








SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 4(3)








SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 4(4)








EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


The Regulations, which apply throughout the United Kingdom, consolidate and further amend Schedule 2 to the Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) Regulations 1988 which specifies the Community directives establishing type approval requirements with respect to the design, construction, equipment and marking of tractors and tractor components. The Regulations implement on the dates specified in regulation 4-

    The amendments to various directives occasioned by the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden;

    Commission Directive 96/63/EC;

    Commission Decision 96/627/EC;

    Directive 97/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;

    Commission Directive 98/38/EC;

    Commission Directive 98/39/EC;

    Commission Directive 98/40/EC;

    Commission Directive 99/40/EC;

    Commission Directive 99/55/EC;

    Commission Directive 99/56/EC;

    Commission Directive 99/57/EC;

    Commission Directive 99/58/EC;

    Council Directive 99/86/EC.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1992/1711.back

[2] 1972 c. 68.back

[3] S.I. 1988/1567; amended by S.I. 1989/2275, 1990/2336 and 1992/80.back

[4] S.I. 1989/2275.back

[5] S.I. 1990/2336.back



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