The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1522
• Sections: 18

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Section 2 Preliminary

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

Section 3 Amendments relating to exhaust emissions

In regulation 4(8), before “14B, 14C or 14D” there shall be inserted “4B”.

Section 4 Amendments relating to exhaust emissions

In Schedule 1—

(a) in column (6) of item 4B, “30.9.1989” shall be inserted in the following two places, that is to say, the places opposite where “1.10.1979” and “10.1.1979” appear in column (5);

(b) in column (4) in item 4C the following words shall be omitted—

(3) Vehicles with two-stroke engines

and

(c) after item 4C, there shall be inserted as item 4D the item so numbered in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Section 5 Amendments relating to unleaded petrol

At the end of regulation 4 there shall be added the following paragraph—

(10) Schedule 1A shall have effect for the purpose of specifying, in relation to certain vehicles, dates which are to be read as if they appeared in column (5) of items 25 and 26 in Schedule 1.

Section 6 Amendments relating to unleaded petrol

In Schedule 1, after item 24A there shall be added as items 25 and 26 the items so numbered in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Section 7 Amendments relating to unleaded petrol

A schedule shall be inserted after Schedule 1 in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Section 1

Vehicles with other than spark ignition engines.

Section 1

Vehicles with other than spark ignition engines.

Section 1

Vehicles with other than spark ignition engines.

Section 2

Vehicles over 3500kg maximum gross weight.

Section 2

Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

Section 2

Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

Section 3

Vehicles fuelled solely by liquid petroleum gas.

Section 1

In this Schedule—

“EEC type approval certificate” means a certificate issued by a member state of the European Economic Community in accordance with Council Directive 70/220/EEC of 20th March 1970 as originally made or with any amendments which have from time to time been made before 5th September 1988;

“engine capacity” means in the case of a reciprocating engine, the nominal swept volume and, in the case of a rotary engine, double the nominal swept volume;

“off-road vehicle” has the meaning given by Annex I to Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6th February 1970 as amended at 5th September 1988;

“relevant authority” means

in relation to an EEC type approval certificate issued by the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State, and

in relation to an EEC type approval certificate issued by any other member state of the European Economic Community, the authority having power under the law of that state to issue that certificate.

Section 2

Items 25 and 26 of Schedule 1 shall have effect in relation to a vehicle as if the date applicable to that vehicle determined in accordance with the following provisions of this Schedule appeared in column (5) of those items.

Section 3

The date applicable to a vehicle shall be—

(a) where the vehicle is of a description specified in column 2 of the Table in Part II of this Schedule and the conditions specified in paragraph 4 are satisfied in relation to it, the date specified for a vehicle of that description in column 3 of the Table;

(b) where paragraph (a) does not apply but the vehicle is one for which, or for a model of which, there is a type approval certificate or (as the case may be) a Minister’s approval certificate in force on 30th September 1989, 1st October 1990;

(c) in any other case, 1st October 1989.

Section 4

The conditions referred to in paragraph 3 are—

(a) that the vehicle is a model in relation to which there is in force an EEC type approval certificate issued before 1st October 1989;

(b) that the manufacturer of the vehicle has supplied to the relevant authority which issued the EEC type approval certificate, a certificate stating that adapting vehicles of that model to the fuel requirements specified in the Annexes to Council Directive 70/220/EEC as amended at 5th September 1988 would entail a change in material specification of the inlet or exhaust valve seats or a reduction in the compression ratio or an increase in the engine capacity to compensate for loss of power; and

(c) that the relevant authority has accepted the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (b).