{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1732",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After Regulation 5 add the following new Regulation:—\n“6 The Secretary of State for Transport hereby designates as an approval mark in respect of a replacement exhaust system to which Commission Directive 81/334/EEC relates, or any component of such a system (other than fixing hardware and pipes) a clearly legible and indelible marking consisting of—\n(a) the trade mark or trade name of the manufacturer of the system or, as the case may be, the component;\n(b) the manufacturer's commercial description of the system or, as the case may be, the component;\n(c) the distinctive letters of the Member State whose competent authority granted type approval of the system or, as the case may be, the component as indicated in the footnote relating to paragraph 3.1.3 of Annex II of the said Commission Directive; and\n(d) the number of the certificate given by the competent authority of a Member State in accordance with paragraph 4.1 of Annex II of the said Commission Directive.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L131, 18.5.81, p.6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1732/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:29:58.281160+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."
}