{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-regulations-1996/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-regulations-1996/schedule-5/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3013",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-approval-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "References to ECE Regulations",
  "text": "(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—\n(a) that item contains a reference to an ECE Regulation (“the base Regulation”) that is not followed by a full-stop and 2 digits; and\n(b) the vehicle would comply with that item were there substituted for that reference, a reference to an entry in column (3) of Part III of this Schedule shown against that Regulation.\n(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—\n(a) that item contains a reference to an ECE Regulation (“the base Regulation”) that is followed by a full-stop and 2 digits; and\n(b) the vehicle would comply with that item were there substituted for that reference, a reference\n(i) against that Regulation, and\n(ii) below the entry in column (3) of Part III of this Schedule for that ECE Regulation and those 2 digits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3013/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:05.357615+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."
}