Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 1946
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003
Made
28th July 2003
Laid before Parliament
11th August 2003
Coming into force
1st September 2003
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 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) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.
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 to the Table in regulation 4(4) (exemptions)
3. —(1) Regulation 4(4) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In column 3 of item 2 in the Table, after the words “regulations 7, 8, 10, 10A, 40 and 53” there shall be inserted
“ ; and
(a)additionally, in respect of any passenger vehicle with a maximum gross weight exceeding 10 tonnes registered in one or more member States, regulations 36A(2), 36A(7) and 36A(9);
(b)additionally, in respect of any goods vehicle with a maximum gross weight exceeding 12 tonnes registered in one or more member States, regulations 36(B)(2), 36B(9) and 36B(11) ” .
Amendment of regulation 36A (speed limiters)
4. In regulation 36A, paragraph (9A) shall be omitted.
Amendment of regulation 36B (speed limiters)
5. —(1) Regulation 36B shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2), for “paragraphs (5) and (14)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (14)( 3 )”.
(3) In paragraph (8), “or a paragraph (3) vehicle” shall be omitted.
(4) In paragraph (10), “or a speed limiter fitted at any time to a paragraph (3) vehicle” shall be omitted.
Amendment of Part II of Schedule 3B (the conditions)
6. —(1) Part II of Schedule 3B shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 6(a), for “paragraph (3)(a), (b) and (d)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (5)(b), (6) and (8)”.
(3) In paragraph 6(b), for “paragraph (3)(a), (b) and (d)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (7)(b) and (10) and in addition those of paragraph (8) or (9)”.
(4) In paragraph 7, for “paragraph (3)(c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (5)(a)”.
(5) In paragraph 8, for “paragraph (3)(c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (7)(a)”.
(6) In paragraph 10, for “regulation 70B” there shall be substituted “regulation 70A”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport
28th July 2003
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 instruments are S.I. 1988/271 , 1991/1527 , 1992/422 , 1994/14 , 1995/1201 , 1997/530 and 1340 .
Paragraph (5) was deleted by S.I. 1996/2064 (regulation 3(2)).