Regulation 5 Classification of Vehicles and Application of RegulationsI1

For the purposes of these Regulations motor vehicles to which they apply are classified as follows—

and (except as otherwise provided in these Regulations) any reference in these Regulations to a class of vehicles is to be construed accordingly.

and (except where otherwise provided in these Regulations) any reference in these Regulations to a class of vehicles shall be construed accordingly.

Save as provided in Regulation 6, these Regulations apply to every vehicle of a class specified in paragraph (1).

The public service vehicles mentioned in paragraph (1) as included in F3Class V or VA are public service vehicles F4which may lawfully be used on a road in the absence of a certificate of initial fitness by virtue of —

F7or (c) section 21(2) of the Transport Act 1985 (a small bus operating under a permit granted under section 19 of that Act).

This paragraph applies to vehicles, in respect of which—

In this regulation—

• “approval authority” has the same meaning as in Community Directive 70/156;

• “certificate of initial fitness” has the same meaning as in section 6 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981;

• “contracting State” means a State which is a party to the International Agreement;

• “EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the EEA Agreement;

• “EEA Agreement” means the agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

• “ECE Regulation” and “Community Directive” have the meanings given by regulation 3(2) of the Construction and Use Regulations;

• “the International Agreement” means the Agreement concerning the adoption of uniform conditions of approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts and reciprocal recognition thereof concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended to which the United Kingdom is a party; and

• “relevant seat belt” means a seat belt, not being a disabled person’s belt or a child restraint, which—

  1. (a)

     is fitted other than as required by regulation 47 of the Construction and Use Regulations; and

  2. (b)

     on or after 1st August 1998 either—

     1. (i)

        has not undergone an examination and been found to comply with the prescribed statutory requirements referred to in item 28A in paragraph 3A of Schedule 2; or

     2. (ii)

        has undergone an examination and been found so to comply but is fitted in a vehicle in respect of which no test certificate has been issued to the effect that that is the case.

In this regulation references to vehicles in EU categories—