{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-fees-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-fees-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Fees) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-fees-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“appeal” means an appeal made in accordance with regulation 10 of the Approval Regulations;\n“the Approval Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996;\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 7(6) of the Approval Regulations;\n“original application” means an application made in accordance with regulation 7(1) to (3) of the Approval Regulations, not being a further application;\n“out of hours” means at any time either—\n(a) on 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); or\n(b) on any other day, other than between—\n(i) 8.00 am and 5.00 pm on a Monday to Thursday inclusive, or\n(ii) 8.00 am and 4.30 pm on a Friday;\n“relevant goods vehicle” means a goods vehicle to which Part III of the Approval Regulations applies; and\n“relevant passenger vehicle” means a vehicle to which Part II of the Approval Regulations applies.\n(2) Without prejudice to section 17 of the Interpretation Act 1978 and subject to the context, a reference in these Regulations to any enactment comprised in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of that Act) is a reference to that enactment as from time to time amended or re-enacted with or without modification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3013; amended by S.I. 1997/1366."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1459/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:22.281186+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."
}