The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/2161
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

Section 2 Preliminary

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

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 2 (interpretation)

In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “the prescribed type approval requirements” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“registered” means registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 ;

Section 4 Amendments to regulation 4 (application of type approval requirements)

(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), before “(2)” there shall be inerted “(1A),” and for the words “used on a road” there shall be substituted the word “registered”.

(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(1A) In relation to a particular vehicle—

(a) a type approval requirement applicable to the vehicle at the date of manufacture shall continue to apply to it until it is registered; and

(b) a type approval requirement which is applicable to vehicles as from a date after that vehicle was manufactured shall not apply to the vehicle unless the subject matter of the requirement is the same as that of a requirement applicable to it on the date it was manufactured;

but nothing in this paragraph affects the operation of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) in so far as it relates to item 4G of Schedule 1 (exhaust emission requirements).

(4) After paragraph (11), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(12) In this regulation, “prescribed” means prescribed under section 54 and 63(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Section 5 Amendments to Schedule 1 (Type Approval Requirements)

In Schedule 1—

(a) for items 12A(1), 12A(2) and 12A(3) there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(b) after item 15B there shall be inserted the item set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(c) after item 17A, there shall be inserted the item set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Section 1

Vehicles of which the glass in the windscreens and other windows on the outside was manufactured in France and which is marked with the letters “TP GS” or “TP GS E” followed by a number being the number of a type approval certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the law of the French Republic.

Section 2

Vehicles constructed to be used for police purposes where the windscreens and all other windows are constructed of safety glazing or safety glass.