Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 1972

The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2000 No. 1972
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

	Made	20th July 2000
	Laid before Parliament	27th July 2000
	Coming into force	18th August 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54, 61, 63 and 66 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[1], and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 18th August 2000.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996
     2. The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996[2] are amended as follows.

     3. In paragraph (1) of regulation 3, sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

     4. In paragraph (1) of regulation 5, the word "and" shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (a) and the words from "and" after sub-paragraph (b) to the end of sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.

     5. In paragraph (2) of regulation 12, for sub-paragraph (a) shall be substituted -

6. In Schedule 1, paragraph 1 shall be omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

20th July 2000

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996.

Regulations 3 and 4 concern the application of the 1996 Regulations. They remove the requirement (in regulations 3 and 5) that passenger vehicles, other than motor ambulances and motor caravans, and goods vehicles must fall within one of the categories specified in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 will continue to apply for the purposes of regulation 12(2) which concerns the Type Code to be inserted in the Minister's approval certificate. For those purposes, regulation 6 removes the category specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (vehicles entering into service in very low numbers) and regulation 5 provides for certificates to bear the Type Code "R" in the case of vehicles not falling into any of the remaining Schedule 1 categories.

Notes:

[1] 1988 c.52; section 61 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 8; section 63 was amended by S.I. 1992/3107; and section 66 was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c.22), Schedule 3, paragraph 24(4) and by S.I. 1992/3107.back

[2] S.I. 1996/3013. The relevant amendments are by S.I. 1998/1008; 1999/2082 and 1999/3226.back

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