# The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3013/schedule/5/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-regulations-1996/schedule-5/paragraph-2
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