The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1544
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.

Section 2 Preliminary

(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that—

(a) it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 3(2) of these Regulations shall apply as from 1st October 1997 to vehicles registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 before the expiration of one year from the making of these Regulations; and

(b) notwithstanding that the said provisions will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 61 (emission of smoke, vapour, gases, oily substances, etc )

(1) Regulation 61 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For Table II there shall be substituted the Table set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Section 4 Amendment to Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles)

(1) Schedule 7B shall be amended as follows.

(2) For sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 7 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

(b) “the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emissions Standards for Road Vehicles (Third Edition)” ( ISBN 0–9526457–2–6) published by the Department of Transport.