Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979 as follows:—

(a)in consequence of ECE Regulation 24 (uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles equipped with diesel engines with regard to the emission of pollutants by the engine) being amended by the O2 series of amendments, a new marking is designated as an approval mark and numbered 24A in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;

(b)in consequence of ECE Regulation 44 (uniform provisions concerning the approval of restraining devices for child-occupants of power-driven vehicles), a new marking is designated as an approval mark and numbered 44 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(c)new paragraphs are added to Schedule 3 to these Regulations: paragraph 16 provides for variation in the figures in the rectangle above the circle in the marking prescribed as an approval mark at item No. 24A: paragraph 17 provides for certain circumstances relating to variations in the marking prescribed as an approval mark at item No. 44.