Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2015.

Amendment of the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Regulations 1983

2. —(1)The Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Regulations 1983( 3 ) are amended as follows.

(2) Regulation 2 is omitted.

(3) In regulation 3—

(a) for “section 103 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 and section 193 of the Road Traffic Act 1972”, substitute “section 140 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and section 189 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”; and

(b) for “bicycles and tricycles”, substitute “pedal cycles with two or more wheels”.

(4) In regulation 4—

(a) paragraph (a) is omitted; and

(b) in paragraph (c)—

(i) for sub-paragraph (i), substitute—

“ (i) has a maximum continuous rated power which does not exceed 250 watts; ” ; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “15”, substitute “15.5”.

(5) After regulation 4 add—

“ 5. —(1) For the purposes of regulation 4(c)(i), “maximum continuous rated power” has the same meaning as in Regulation ( EU ) No 168/2013 ( 4 ) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles ( 5 ) .

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), maximum continuous rated power may be determined in accordance with—

(a) any relevant standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any EEA State or the Republic of Turkey,

(b) any relevant international standard recognised for use in any EEA State or the Republic of Turkey, or

(c) any relevant technical regulation with mandatory or de facto mandatory application for marketing or use in any EEA State or in the Republic of Turkey,

in so far as the standard, code of practice or technical regulation in question enables maximum continuous rated power to be determined in a manner equivalent to that prescribed by Regulation (EU) No 168/2013. ” .