Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 306
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
7th February 2001
Laid before Parliament
7th February 2001
Coming into force
1st March 2001
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 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 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2001.
Preliminary
2. The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Amendment of regulation 61A (emission of smoke, vapour, gases, oily substances etc. further requirements for certain motor vehicles first used after 1st January 2001)
3. In regulation 61A(4), for the words “this paragraph” shall be substituted “paragraph (3)”.
Amendment of Schedule 8 (plates for certain vehicles)
4. In Schedule 8, Part III—
(1) in paragraph 2(1)—
(a) at the beginning shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 3A,” and
(b) after the words “the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations( 3 )” shall be inserted “or the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001( 4 )”;
(2) in paragraph 3, at the beginning shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 3A,”; and
(3) after paragraph 3, shall be inserted—
“ 3A. In the case of a vehicle—
(a) which complies with the requirements specified in regulation 4(2) of the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001;
(b) in respect of which a Minister’s approval certificate has been issued under section 58 of the 1988 Act for the purposes of the type approval requirements prescribed by those Regulations; and
(c) in respect of which a Minister’s approval certificate has not subsequently been issued under that section for the purposes of the type approval requirements prescribed by the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations,
the weight shown on the plate in relation to items 7 and 10 in Part I of this Schedule shall be 3,500 kg. ”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
7th February 2001
1988 c. 52 ; section 41(2) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) , Schedule 4, paragraph 50.
S.I. 1986/1078 ; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/3197 .
Defined by regulation 3 of S.I. 1986/1078 to mean the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1271 ). Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/697 , 1984/1402 , 1985/46 , 1986/427 , 1986/1089 , 1987/1508 , 1988/1523 , 1989/1579 , 1991/1021 , 1991/1970 , 1992/1342 , 1992/3084 , 1993/2200 , 1994/2191 , 1995/1323 , 1996/2331 , 1996/3014 and 1998/1006 .
S.I. 2001/25 .