The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/1488
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 30th June 2000.

(2) The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) Regulations 1998 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 2 Interpretation

In regulation 3, after subparagraph (a) there shall be inserted—

(aa) “ ECE Regulation 22” means Regulation No. 22 set out in Addendum 21 to the UN ECE Agreement;

(aaa) “ECE Regulation 22.05” means ECE Regulation 22 as amended by the 05 series of amendments and all previous amendments in force on 30th June 2000;

(aaaa) “the UN ECE Agreement” means the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for the reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions, to which the United Kingdom is a party by virtue of an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963;

Section 3 Prescribed types recommended helmet

(1) Regulation 5(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subparagraph (a) there shall be deleted “or”.

(3) For the words “and in either case” there shall be substituted “and in each case”.

(4) After “the standard in point)” there shall be inserted “, or (c) with ECE Regulation 22.05 including the approval, marking and conformity of production requirements of that Regulation”.