Citation and commencement

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

Preliminary

2. The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982(2) are further amended in accordance with the following provisions.

Amendments as to exhaust emissions

3.-(1) In regulation 4-

(a)in paragraph (3), for "If a vehicle or vehicle part" there is substituted "Save as provided in paragraph (3A) of this regulation, if a vehicle or vehicle part";

(b)after paragraph (3), there is inserted the following new paragraph-

"(3A) The provisions of paragraph (3) of this regulation do not apply in respect of items 2B, 2C, 2D and 2E in Schedule 1";

(c)in paragraph (14), for "item 2B and column (5) of items 2C and 2D" there is substituted "items 2B, 2C and 2D, and column (6) of items 2E, 7 and 8".

(2) In Schedule 1-

(a)in item 2B, in column (3)(a), in the third of the alternative sets of particulars of instruments or other documents, for "and amended on 1st June 1984" there is substituted "and amended on 1st June 1984 and corrected on 16th May 1989";

(b)for item 2C, there is substituted item 2C as specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(c)for item 2D, there is substituted item 2D as specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(d)after item 2D, there is inserted new items 2E, 2F, 2G and 2H as specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(e)in item 7, in column (6), there is inserted "See regulation 4(14) and Schedule 1B"; and

(f)in item 8, in column (6), there is inserted "See regulation 4(14) and Schedule 1B".

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 1B-

(a)in paragraph 1, for the words "Items 2B, 2C and 2D" there is substituted "Items 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 7 and 8";

(b)in paragraph 3(1)(a), for the words "sub-paragraph (2)" there is substituted "sub-paragraphs (2) or (3)"; and

(c)after paragraph 3(2) there are inserted the following sub-paragraphs-

"(3) This sub-paragraph applies in relation to item 2D where a vehicle is fitted with an engine which is described in the Annex to the type-approval certificate granted before the 1st July 1992 in accordance with Council Directive 88/77/EEC(3).

(4) Expressions used in paragraph (3), which are also used in article 3 of Council Directive 91/542/EEC(4), have the same meaning as in that article."

(4) For Part II of Schedule 1B there is substituted the new Part II as specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Amendments as to speed limiters

4. In Schedule 1, in column (4) of item 9, for the words "of less than" there is substituted "not exceeding" and in column (5), opposite the second entry in column (3) there is inserted "1.2.1992".

(Regulations 3(2)(b), (c) and (d))

SCHEDULE 1

(Regulation 3(4))

SCHEDULE 2

"PART II

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982.

These amendments introduce new type approval requirements as to exhaust emissions for the vehicles to which the regulations apply, other than vehicles which are expressly exempted. The new type approval requirements are contained in the Council and Commission Directives specified in the second and third alternatives in item 2C in Schedule 1 to the regulations, the ECE Regulations specified in items 2D and 2E in that Schedule, the Council and Commission Directives specified in item 2F of that Schedule and in the Council Directive specified in item 2G of that Schedule. The requirements for three wheeled vehicles are specified in a new item 2H of that Schedule. Also, new provisions are made about the dates of the cessation of the requirements as to fuel and fuel input respectively specified in items 7 and 8 of Schedule 1 to the 1982 regulations as a result of the addition to that Schedule of new items 2F and 2G.

Regulation 4 amends the requirements of item 9 of Schedule 1 which were introduced by the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/25). The effect of the amendment is to correct the application of these regulations so as to apply to vehicles with a maximum gross weight exceeding 7.5 tonnes and to insert an application date.

Copies of the Council and Commission Directives and of the ECE Regulations referred to in the amendments to the regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty's Stationery Office.