Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1434
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
26th May 2000
Laid before Parliament
31st May 2000
Coming into force
For the purposes of regulations 2 and 3
1st August 2000
For all other purposes
1st October 2000
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988( 1 ) and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and Commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force for the purposes of regulations 2 and 3 on 1st August 2000 and for all other purposes on 1st October 2000.
Preliminary
2. The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986( 2 ) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Amendment of Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles)
3. In Schedule 7B, in paragraph 7 for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“ (b) “the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles—Sixth Edition” ( ISBN 0-9526457-5-0) published by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. ”
4. —(1) In Schedule 7B, in paragraph 8, for the words “with free acceleration” there shall be substituted the words “when tested in accordance with point 8.2.2. of Annex II of Council Directive 96/96/EC ( 3 ) as replaced by Article 1 of Commission Directive 1999/52/EC ”( 4 ).
(2) In Schedule 7B, in paragraph 9, in sub-paragraph (a) the word “; and” and sub-paragraph (b) shall be deleted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
26th May 2000
1988 c. 52 ; section 41(2) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) , Schedule 4, paragraph 50.
S.I. 1986/1078 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/2210 , 1996/2085 , 1997/1544 , 1998/1563 , 1999/1521 and 1999/1959 .
OJ No. L 46, 17.02.97, p. 1.
OJ No. L 142, 05.06.99, p. 26.