Regulation 2 Amendments to the Agriculture (Power Take-off) Regulations 1957

Regulation 3 of the Agriculture (Power Take-off) Regulations 1957^f1 shall be amended as follows:—

(a)

in paragraph (1) of that regulation—

(i)

there shall be inserted, at the beginning, the words “Subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation,”, and

(ii)

there shall be substituted for the word “The” where it first appears the word “the”; and

(b)

the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (2) of that regulation:—

“(3)

Nothing in paragraph (1) of this regulation shall apply to a tractor of a type in respect of which EEC type-approval has been granted with regard to its power take-off and the protection of that power take-off in accordance with—

(a)

Council Directive 74/150/EEC^f2 relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as amended by Council Directive 79/694/EEC^f3, Council Directive 82/890/EEC^f4, Council Directive 88/297/EEC^f5 and the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties which forms part of the Treaty concerning the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to The European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Lisbon and Madrid on 12th June 1985^f6; and

(b)

Council Directive 86/297/EEC^f7 relating to the power take-offs of wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors and their protection.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1957/1386; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1981/1414.
f2: OJ No. L84, 28.3.74, p.10.
f3: OJ No. L205, 13.8.79, p.17.
f4: OJ No. L378, 31.12.82, p.45.
f5: OJ No. L126, 20.5.88, p.52.
f6: The Act is included in European Communities No. 27 (1985), Cmnd 9634.
f7: OJ No. L186, 8.7.86, p.19.