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Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004/356 · Made 24 August 2004

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ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Made 24th August 2004

Coming into operation 1st October 2004

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 55(1), (2) and (6) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995f1 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment to Schedule 10 (emissions from certain motor vehicles)
  3. 3Revocation
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2004.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999f1.

2Amendment to Schedule 10 (emissions from certain motor vehicles)

(1)

Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

In paragraph 7, for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub- paragraph –

“(b)

“the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles (Tenth Edition)” (ISBN 0-9526457-9-3) published by the Department for Transport.”.

3Revocation

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003f1 are hereby revoked.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 24th August 2004.

L.S.

Stanley Duncan

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the definition of “the emissions publication” in Schedule 10 to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 so as to refer to the most recent (i.e. the tenth) edition of the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles”. The publication specifies, with respect to vehicles with spark ignition engines, the maximum permitted carbon monoxide content of exhaust emissions at idling speed and the limits for the ratio of air to petrol vapour entering the combustion chamber, in relation to each of the vehicle models named in the publication.

Copies of the emissions publication can be obtained from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Berkeley House, Croydon Street, Bristol, BS5 0DA (Telephone number 0117 954 3277).

These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission pursuant to European Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (O.J. No. L204, 21.7.98, p. 37).

Copies of the above-noted Directive may be obtained from TSO, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD.