Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1489
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
6th June 2000
Laid before Parliament
7th June 2000
Coming into force
30th June 2000
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 18 of the Road Traffic Act 1988( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 30th June 2000.
(2)The Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) Regulations 1999( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 2, after the words “In these Regulations” there shall be inserted—
“ (aa) “ ECE Regulation 22” means Regulation No. 22 set out in Addendum 21 to the UN ECE Agreement;
(aaa) “ECE Regulation 22.05” means ECE Regulation 22 as amended by the 05 series of amendments and all previous amendments in force on 30th June 2000;
(aaaa) “the UN ECE Agreement” means the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended ( 3 ) concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for the reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions, to which the United Kingdom is a party by virtue of an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963; ” .
Prescribed types of authorised eye protector
3. —(1) Regulation 4(1) shall be amended as follows.
(2) After subparagraph (a) there shall be inserted
“ (aa) those which conform with ECE Regulation 22.05 including the approval, marking and conformity of production requirements of that Regulation; ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
6th June 2000