Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 227
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Made
1st February 2002
Laid before Parliament
8th February 2002
Coming into force
1st March 2002
The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 41(1), (2) and (5) 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. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st March 2002.
Amendment of Schedule 7B
2. —(1) Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In sub-paragraph 2(a), for “0.3%” there shall be substituted “the relevant percentage”.
(3) In paragraph 3, the words “paragraph 1 of” shall be inserted after the words “For the purposes of”.
(4) After paragraph 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“ 3A For the purposes of paragraph 2(a) of this Part of this Schedule the relevant percentage, in respect of a vehicle, is, when the engine is running without load at a fast idling speed—
(a) if the vehicle is of a description specified in the Annex to the emissions publication, the percentage shown against that description of vehicle in column 3(a) of that Annex; or
(b) if the vehicle is not of such a description, 0.3%. ”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State For Transport, Local Government and the Regions
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
1st February 2002
1988 c. 52 ; section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) . Schedule 4, paragraph 50 and Schedule 8.
S.I. 1986/1078 ; relevant amending instrument are S.I. 1995/2210 , S.I. 1996/2085 and S.I. 2001/1825 .
OJ No. L 48, 17.2.2001.
OJ No. L 46, 17.2.1997.