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The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

S.I. 1999/778 · Made 10 March 1999

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Made 10th March 1999

Laid before Parliament 22nd March 1999

Coming into force 14th April 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 for the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1972/1811.

f2

1972 c. 68.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendments to regulation 15 (duty to give reasons etc)
  3. 3Amendments to Schedule 1
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 14th April 1999.

(2)

The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

2Amendments to regulation 15 (duty to give reasons etc)

In regulation 15(2)–

(a)

for subparagraph (b), there shall be substituted–

“(b)

regulation 9(2), (3) or (9),”;

(b)

in subparagraph (d), for the words “regulation 11(10) or (11)” there shall be substituted “regulation 11(11) or (12)”.

3Amendments to Schedule 1

(1)

Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In the Table, in item 2 after the last entry in the third column there shall be inserted–

“

98/69/EC†L350, 28.12.98, p.1
98/77/EC*L286, 23.10.98, p.34

”.

(3)

In the Table, in item 6 after the entry there shall be inserted in the third and fourth columns–

“

98/90/EC*L337, 12.12.98, p.29

”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

10th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998 (the “1998 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 makes some minor drafting amendments to Regulation 15 of the 1998 Regulations.

Regulation 3 inserts references to recent EC Directives in items 2 and 6 in the Table in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Regulations.

Copies of the EC Directives referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office.