Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982 as follows:—

(a)

the scope of the Regulations is refined (Regulation 3(a));

(b)

the exemptions from the Regulations are amended in relation to vehicles of a new or improved type, or fitted with equipment of a new or improved type (Regulation 3(b)) and in relation to vehicles being used on a road by virtue of Article 15, 17 or 18 of the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1198) (Regulation 3(c));

(c)

a minor printing error is corrected (Regulation 4);

(d)

provisions are made for the cancellation of a certificate (as well as for the suspension of or amendment to one) (Regulation 5);

(e)

the type approval requirements are amended so as to add provisions about sound levels and exhaust emissions and to provide a cessation date for certain standards which are being superseded (Regulation 6 and the Schedule).