Paragraph 2

(1)

For the purposes of these Regulations, where a vehicle does not comply with an item in Schedule 2 or 3 of these Regulations, it shall nevertheless be regarded as complying with that item if—

(a)

that item contains a reference to a Directive (“the base Directive”) not followed by the words “as last amended by”; and

(b)

the vehicle would comply with that item were there substituted for that reference, a reference to the base Directive as last amended by a Directive shown against the base Directive in column 3 of Part II of this Schedule.

(2)

For the purposes of these Regulations, where a vehicle does not comply with an item in Schedule 2 or 3 of these Regulations, it shall nevertheless be regarded as complying with that item if—

(a)

that item contains a reference to a Directive (“the base Directive”) as last amended by another Directive (“the amending Directive”); and;

(b)

the vehicle would comply with that item were there substituted for that reference, a reference to the base Directive as last amended by a Directive shown—

(i)

against the base Directive, and

(ii)

below the amending Directive in column 3 of Part II of this Schedule.