The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/306
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2001.

Section 2 Preliminary

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

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 61A (emission of smoke, vapour, gases, oily substances etc. further requirements for certain motor vehicles first used after 1st January 2001)

In regulation 61A(4), for the words “this paragraph” shall be substituted “paragraph (3)”.

Section 4 Amendment of Schedule 8 (plates for certain vehicles)

In Schedule 8, Part III—

(1) in paragraph 2(1)—

(a) at the beginning shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 3A,” and

(b) after the words “the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations ” shall be inserted “or the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001 ”;

(2) in paragraph 3, at the beginning shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 3A,”; and

(3) after paragraph 3, shall be inserted—

(3A) In the case of a vehicle—

(a) which complies with the requirements specified in regulation 4(2) of the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001;

(b) in respect of which a Minister’s approval certificate has been issued under section 58 of the 1988 Act for the purposes of the type approval requirements prescribed by those Regulations; and

(c) in respect of which a Minister’s approval certificate has not subsequently been issued under that section for the purposes of the type approval requirements prescribed by the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations,

the weight shown on the plate in relation to items 7 and 10 in Part I of this Schedule shall be 3,500 kg.