The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/227
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st March 2002.

Section 2 Amendment of Schedule 7B

(1) Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations shall be amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph 2(a), for “0.3%” there shall be substituted “the relevant percentage”.

(3) In paragraph 3, the words “paragraph 1 of” shall be inserted after the words “For the purposes of”.

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

(3A) For the purposes of paragraph 2(a) of this Part of this Schedule the relevant percentage, in respect of a vehicle, is, when the engine is running without load at a fast idling speed—

(a) if the vehicle is of a description specified in the Annex to the emissions publication, the percentage shown against that description of vehicle in column 3(a) of that Annex; or

(b) if the vehicle is not of such a description, 0.3%.