{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-2004/schedule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-2004/schedule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/623",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS FOR RELEVANT VEHICLES EXCEPT SCHEDULE 2 VEHICLES (REPLACING SCHEDULE 4)",
  "text": "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\nItem\nSubject matter\nDesign, construction and equipment requirements\nDefinitions and supplementary provisions\nExemptions and modifications\n(a)\n(b)\n(c)\nDate of manufacture of the vehicle\nCommunity Instrument\nECE Regulation\n3\nProtective steering\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of the vehicle, then it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the protective steering requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf (i) a disabled person’s vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle; and (ii) the reason for the adaptation is to enable a disabled person to drive the vehicle or travel as a passenger in it; then the requirements of this item shall not apply, but only insofar as the adaptation prevents the disabled person’s vehicle from complying with any of the requirements of this item.\n1st July 1991\nDirective 74/297/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 5 and 6\nECE Regulation 12.01, paragraphs 5 and 6\n1st October 1996\nDirective 74/297/EEC as amended by Directive 91/662/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 5 and 6\nECE Regulation 12.03, paragraphs 5 and 6\n4\nExhaust emissions\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of the vehicle, then so long as the adaptation has not been to a system which would directly affect the amount of exhaust emissions emitted from the vehicle, it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the exhaust emission requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf the exhaust system of any vehicle has been adapted (as permitted below), then the requirements of this item shall be deemed to be met, so long as the unadapted vehicle complied with the relevant emission requirements for that category of vehicle before it was adapted.\nAny adaptation to an exhaust system of a vehicle shall be permitted so long as:\n(i) any adaptation is down stream of any emission control device fitted to the vehicle; and\n(ii) the emission control device is identical to that which would have been fitted had the vehicle not been adapted.\n1st January 1993\nDirective 70/220/EEC as amended by: Directive 91/441/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8 (applies only to passenger cars)\nECE Regulation 83.01, paragraphs 5, 8 and 13\nFor the purposes of this item—\n“passenger car” means a motor vehicle which\n(a) is constructed or adapted to carry passengers and is not a goods vehicle;\n(b) * has no more than 6 seats including the driver’s seat; and\n(c) has a maximum gross weight not exceeding 2,500 kg.\n*Note: paragraph (b) does not apply to vehicles manufactured after 1st January 2001.\n1st October 1994\nDirective 93/59/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8 (applies only to vehicles other than passenger cars)\nECE Regulation 83.01, paragraphs 5, 8 and 13\n1st January 1997\nDirective 94/12/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (applies only to passenger cars)\nECE Regulation 83.02, paragraph 5\n1st October 1997\nDirective 96/69/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (applies from this date to Class I vehicles)\nECE Regulation 83.03, paragraph 5\n“Reference mass” has the same meaning as in Directive 70/220/EEC, as amended by Directive 96/69/EC.\n“Class I vehicle” means a goods vehicle (category N1) which has a reference mass not exceeding 1,250kg (1,305 kg from 1st January 2001).\n1st October 1998\nDirective 96/69/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\n“Class II vehicle” means a goods vehicle (category N1) which has a reference mass exceeding 1,250 kg (1,305 kg from 2001) but not exceeding 1,700 kg (1,760 kg from 2001).\n“Class III vehicle” means a goods vehicle (category N1) which has a reference mass exceeding 1,700 kg (1,760 kg from 2001).\n1st October 1999\nDirective 98/77/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (applies to vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas or compressed natural gas)\nECE Regulation 83.04, paragraph 5\n1st January 2001\nDirective 98/69/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (Phase I limits) (applies from this date to passenger cars and Class I vehicles)\n1st January 2002\nDirective 98/69/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (Phase 1 limits) (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\n1st January 2003\nDirective 98/69/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5 (Phase 1 limits) (applies from this date to diesel passenger vehicles. Until this date, diesel passenger vehicles are treated as a vehicle of category N1)\n“Diesel passenger vehicle” means a vehicle of category M1 the maximum mass of which exceeds 2,000 kg, fitted with a compression ignition engine, and which is:\n(a) constructed or adapted to carry more than 6 occupants including the driver, or\n(b) an off-road vehicle as defined in Annex II to the 1970 Directive.\n1st January 2006\nDirective 98/69/EC annex 1, paragraph 5 (Phase 2 limits) (applies from this date to passenger cars and Class I vehicles)\n1st January 2007\nDirective 98/69/EC annex 1, paragraph 5 (Phase 2 limits) (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\n8\nAnti-theft devices\n1st October 1998\nDirective 74/61/EEC, as amended by: Directive 95/56/EC, annex V (electronic immobiliser) and annex VI (alarm system if fitted).\nECE Regulation 18.02, paragraph 7 and ECE Regulation 97.01 paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 (alarm system) and paragraphs 31, 32 and 33 (immobiliser)\n10\nSeat belt anchorages\n1st July 1991\nDirective 76/115/EEC as amended by: Directive 82/318/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 4 and 5\nECE Regulation 14.02, paragraphs 5, 6 and 7\nIn the case of a seat belt anchorage fitted to a seating position of a disabled person’s vehicle after the manufacture of the vehicle, for the requirements of this item, shall be substituted the requirements in item 10 of Schedule 3.\nIf any vehicle has been adapted to a vehicle of category M1, for the requirements of this item shall be substituted the requirements in item 10 of Schedule 3.\n1st July 1997\nDirective 90/629/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 4 and 5\nECE Regulation 14.03, paragraphs 5, 6 and 7\n11\nInstallation of seat belts\n1st July 1997\nDirective 77/541/EEC as amended by: Directive 90/628/EEC, annex 1, paragraphs 3.1 to 3.1.9 and 3.2.1 to 3.2.2.4\nThis item shall not apply to a seat belt, fitted to an anchorage that has been fitted to a disabled person’s vehicle during the course of it being adapted to become a disabled person’s vehicle.\n1st October 1999\nDirective 96/36/EC, annex 1, paragraphs 3.1 to 3.1.10, 3.1.11, 3.1.12 and 3.2.1 to 3.2.2.5\nECE Regulation 16.04, (Supplement 8) paragraphs 8.1 to 8.1.10.3, 8.1.11 to 8.1.12 and 8.2.1 to 8.2.2.5.2\n12\nBrakes\n1st April 1995\nDirective 71/320/EEC as amended by: Directive 91/422/EEC, annex 1, paragraph 2\nECE Regulation 13.06 paragraph 5\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of the vehicle, then so long as the adaptation has not been to a system which would directly affect the brakes, it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the brake requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\n1st October 1999\nDirective 98/12/EC, annex 1, paragraph 2.1.1.3 (Requirements for asbestos-free brake linings only)\nECE Regulation 13.09, paragraph 5.1.1.3 or ECE Regulation 13H, paragraph 5.1.1.3 (Requirements for asbestos-free brake linings only)\nIf the braking system of a disabled person’s vehicle has been adapted so as to enable a disabled person to drive the vehicle, then the requirements of this item shall not apply to any such adaptation.\n31st March 2001\nDirective 98/12/EC, annex 1, paragraph 2 (All requirements)\nECE Regulation 13.09, paragraph 5 or ECE Regulation 13H, paragraph 5 (All requirements)\n13\nNoise and silencers\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of vehicle, then so long as the adaptation has not been to a system which would directly effect the amount of noise emitted from the vehicle, it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf the exhaust system of any vehicle has been adapted (as permitted below), then the requirements of this item shall be deemed to be met, so long as the unadapted vehicle complied with the relevant noise and silencer requirements for that category of vehicle before it was adapted.\nAny adaptation to an exhaust system of a vehicle shall be permitted so long as:\n(i) any adaptation is downstream of any emission control device fitted within the system; and\n(ii) the emission control device and silencer are identical to those which would have been fitted had the vehicle not been adapted.\n1st July 1991\nDirective 70/157/EEC as amended by: Directive 84/424/EEC, annex 1, paragraph 5\nECE Regulation 51.01, paragraph 5\n1st January 1997\nDirective 92/97/EEC or Directive 96/20/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5\nECE Regulation 51.02, paragraph 5\n26\nCarbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption\n1st January 1997\nDirective 80/1268/EEC as amended by: Directive 93/116/EC, annex 1, paragraph 5\nECE Regulation 101, paragraph 5\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of vehicle, then so long as the adaptation has not been to a system which would directly affect the carbon dioxide emissions emitted from the vehicle or its fuel consumption, it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf the exhaust system of any vehicle has been adapted (as permitted below), then the requirements of this item shall be deemed to be met, so long as the unadapted vehicle complied with the relevant carbon dioxide emission and fuel consumption requirements for that category of vehicle before it was adapted.\nAny adaptation to an exhaust system shall be permitted so long as:\n(i) any such adaptation is down stream of any emission control device fitted within the system; and\n(ii) the emission control device is identical to that which would have been fitted had the vehicle not been adapted.\n27\nFrontal impact\n1st October 2003\nDirective 96/79/EC, annex 2, paragraph 3\nECE Regulation 94.01, paragraph 5\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of vehicle, then it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the frontal impact requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf (i) a disabled person’s vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle which before it was adapted was of a category which was required to comply with the requirements of this item; and (ii) the reason for the adaptation is to enable a disabled person to drive the vehicle or travel as a passenger in it; then the requirements of this item shall not apply, but only insofar as the adaptation prevents the disabled person’s vehicle from complying with any of the requirements of this item.\n28\nSide impact\n1st October 2003\nDirective 96/27/EC, annex 2, paragraph 3\nECE Regulation 95.01, paragraph 5\nIf any vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle, the effect of which is to change the category of vehicle, then it shall be sufficient to show compliance either with the side impact requirements for the category of the unadapted vehicle, or of the adapted vehicle.\nIf (i) a disabled person’s vehicle has been adapted from a vehicle which was of a category, which was required to comply with the requirements of this item; and (ii) the reason for the adaptation is to enable a disabled person to drive the vehicle or travel as a passenger in it; then the requirements of this item shall not apply to the disabled person’s vehicle, but only insofar as the adaptation prevents the disabled person’s vehicle from complying with any of the requirements of this item.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 in force at 1.4.2004, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/623/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:30:33.578046+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."
}