{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1008",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Item 17 (interior fittings) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In column 4 at the end there shall be inserted—\n““air bag” means a flexible bag fitted to a vehicle and designed to be filled with gas under pressure in order to protect the driver or a front seat passenger in the event of a collision involving the front of the vehicle.”\n(3) In column 5—\n(a) For the second paragraph there shall be substituted—\n“This item shall not apply to any area inside a vehicle which is not inside the head impact zone for any designated seating position. After 31st December 1999 this exemption shall be of no effect except in relation to a vehicle which is an ambulance or a motor caravan.”\n(b) at the end there shall be added—\n“Paragraph 1 (in so far as it relates to the surface of an instrument panel) and paragraph 2 shall not apply to a vehicle if—\n(a) it is not a vehicle which meets the requirements of paragraph 3 or 4 of Schedule 1;\n(b) it is fitted with air bags for the protection of the driver and the front seat passenger; and\n(c) those air bags were fitted at the time the vehicle was manufactured.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1008/schedule/2/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:28.668776+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."
}