Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1522

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1988 No. 1522

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made	5th September 1988

Laid before Parliament

9th September 1988

Coming into force

1st October 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 47(1) and 50(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1972^[1], and now vested in him^[2], and being a Minister designated^[3] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[4] in relation to the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 199(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1972, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Preliminary
    2.    The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984^[5] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendments relating to exhaust emissions
    3.    In regulation 4(8), before "14B, 14C or 14D" there shall be inserted "4B".

    4.    In Schedule 1—
 (a) in column (6) of item 4B, "30.9.1989" shall be inserted in the following two places, that is to say, the places opposite where "1.10.1979" and "10.1.1979" appear in column (5);
 (b) in column (4) in item 4C the following words shall be omitted—
    "3.    Vehicles with two-stroke engines";

and
 (c) after item 4C, there shall be inserted as item 4D the item so numbered in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendments relating to unleaded petrol
    5.    At the end of regulation 4 there shall be added the following paragraph—
"  (10)  Schedule 1A shall have effect for the purpose of specifying, in relation to certain vehicles, dates which are to be read as if they appeared in column (5) of items 25 and 26 in Schedule 1.".

    6.    In Schedule 1, after item 24A there shall be added as items 25 and 26 the items so numbered in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

    7.    A schedule shall be inserted after Schedule 1 in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport

5th September 1988

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Notes:

[1] 1972 c. 20, as amended and extended by section 10 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50).

[2] S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

[3] S.I. 1972/1811.

[4] 1972 c. 68.

[5] S.I. 1984/981, as amended by S.I. 1984/1401, 1761, 1985/1651, 1986/739 and 1987/1509.

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