{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-cycles-etc-single-vehicle-approval-fees-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-cycles-etc-single-vehicle-approval-fees-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1960",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Cycles Etc. (Single Vehicle Approval) (Fees) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-cycles-etc-single-vehicle-approval-fees-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n“the Approval Regulations” means the Motor Cycles Etc. (Single Vehicle Approval) Regulations 2003;\n“approval requirements” has the same meaning as in the Approval Regulations;\n“appeal” means an appeal under section 60 of the Act in respect of the determination of an application;\n“application” means an application (whether an original application or a further application) under regulation 5 of the Approval Regulations for the issue of a Minister’s approval certificate under section 58 of the Act;\n“examination” means an examination for the purposes of an application;\n“exceptional circumstances” means an accident, a fire, an epidemic, severe weather, a failure in the supply of essential services or other unexpected happening (excluding a breakdown or mechanical defect in a vehicle or non-delivery of spare parts for that vehicle);\n“further application” means an application made in accordance with regulation 5(6) of the Approval Regulations;\n“holiday” means any day which is a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day or a Bank Holiday (as defined in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971);\n“low power moped” means a vehicle fitted with pedals and an auxiliary engine of a power output not exceeding 1 kilowatt and a maximum speed not exceeding 25 kilometres per hour being a moped within the meaning of the first indent of Article 1(2) of Council Directive 92/61/EEC relating to the type-approval of two or three wheel motor vehicles as amended by Directive 2000/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n“original application” means an application made in accordance with regulation 5(1) to (3) of the Approval Regulations, not being a further application;\n“out of hours period” means—\n(a) a holiday; or\n(b) any part of a day not being a holiday, other than between—\n(i) 8.00 am and 5.00 pm on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday; or\n(ii) 8.00 am and 4.30 pm on a Friday;\n“part”, in relation to a vehicle, includes a system, a separate technical unit and a component;\n“re-examination” means an examination for the purposes of an appeal; and\n“relevant vehicles” means those vehicles to which the Approval Regulations apply.\n(2) These Regulations apply to relevant vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1959."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L225, 10.8.92, p. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L106, 3.5.2000, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1960/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:13:03.572298+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}