Article 57 UN Regulations required for GB type-approvalF8

United Kingdom

UN Regulations or amendments thereto which the F1United Kingdom has voted in favour of, or that the United Kingdom applies and that are listed in Annex II, shall be part of the requirements for the F2GB type-approval of vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units.

Where the F3United Kingdom has voted in favour of a UN Regulation or amendments thereto for the purpose of whole-vehicle type-approval, the F4the Secretary of State may by regulations supplement this Regulation by making that UN Regulation or the amendments thereto compulsory or amending this Regulation.

F5Regulations made under this paragraph must specify the dates from which that UN Regulation or amendments are to be compulsory, and shall include transitional provisions, where appropriate, and, where applicable for the purposes of F6GB type-approval, first registration and entry into service of vehicles and making available on the market of systems, components and separate technical units.

F7(3.)

UN Regulations and amendments made thereto which are compulsory and the dates from which they are compulsory are specified in Annex XII.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 57(1) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(b)(i)
F2: Word in Art. 57(1) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(b)(ii)
F3: Words in Art. 57(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(c)(i)(aa)
F4: Words in Art. 57(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(c)(i)(bb)
F5: Words in Art. 57(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(c)(ii)(aa)
F6: Word in Art. 57(2) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(c)(ii)(bb)
F7: Art. 57(3) inserted (13.11.2025) by The Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1110), regs. 1(2), 2(2)
F8: Word in Art. 57 heading substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 34(1)(a)