{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/30",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations –\n(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted –\n““the 1995 Order” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;”;\n(b) after the definitions beginning “axle weight” there shall be inserted –\n““bi-purpose vehicle” means a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage of both goods and not more than eight passengers, not being a vehicle to which the 1985 Regulations apply nor a motor caravan;”;\n(c) after the definition of “family of types” there shall be inserted –\n““goods vehicle” means a vehicle of a kind specified in regulation 3A(1)(a);\n“hire agreement” means an agreement for the bailment of a vehicle which is not a hire-purchase agreement;\n“hire-purchase agreement” has the same meaning as in the Consumer Credit Act 1974;”;\n(d) after the definition of “relevant vehicle” there shall be inserted –\n““recovery vehicle” has the meaning given in paragraph 5(2) of Part V of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;” and\n(e) after the definition of “subject matter” there shall be added –\n““the Testing Regulations” means the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 43 (with reg. 30, Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c. 39"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 304"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/30/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:23.765463+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."
}