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  "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": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Item\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\n4\nExhaust emissions\n1st January 1993\nDirective 70/220/EEC, as last amended by Directive 91/441/EEC, Annex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8 (applies only to passenger cars)\n83.01, paragraphs 5, 8 and 13\nFor the purposes of this item – “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\n1st October 1994\nDirective 93/59/EEC Annex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8 (applies only to vehicles other than passenger cars)\n83.01, paragraphs 5, 8 and 13\n(c)has a maximum gross weight not exceeding 2,500 kg.\n*Note: (b) does not apply to vehicles manufactured after 1st January 2001.\n1st January 1997\nDirective 94/12/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (applies only to passenger cars)\n83.02, paragraph 5\n“Reference mass” has the same meaning as in Directive 70/220/EEC as last amended by Directive 96/69/EC.\n1st October 1997 (applies from this date to Class I vehicles)\nDirective 96/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5\n83.03, paragraph 5\n“Class I vehicle” means a goods vehicle (category NI) which has a reference mass not exceeding 1,305 kg.\n1st October 1998 (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\nDirective 96/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5\n83.03, paragraph 5\n“Class II vehicle” means a goods vehicle (category NI) which has a reference mass exceeding 1,305 kg but not exceeding 1,760 kg.\n“Class III” vehicle means a goods vehicle (category NI) which has a reference mass exceeding 1,760 kg.\n1st October 1999\nDirective 98/77/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (applies to vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas or compressed natural gas)\n83.04, paragraph 5\n1st January 2001 (applies from this date to passenger cars and Class I vehicles)\nDirective 98/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (Phase I limits)\n1st January 2002 (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\nDirective 98/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (Phase 1 limits)\n1st January 2003 (until this date, a diesel passenger vehicle is treated as a vehicle of category NI)\nDirective 98/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (Phase 1 limits)\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 –\n1st January 2006 (applies from this date to passenger cars and Class I vehicles)\nDirective 98/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (Phase 2 limits)\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 2007 (applies from this date to vehicles of category M1 other than passenger cars, Class II and Class III vehicles)\nDirective 98/69/EC, Annex I, paragraph 5 (Phase 2 limits)",
  "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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 in operation at 31.3.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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