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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1984/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1984/697",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1984",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982 as follows:—\n(a) the scope of the Regulations is refined (Regulation 3(a));\n(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));\n(c) a minor printing error is corrected (Regulation 4);\n(d) provisions are made for the cancellation of a certificate (as well as for the suspension of or amendment to one) (Regulation 5);\n(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about sound levels and exhaust emissions and to provide a cessation date for certain standards which are being superseded (Regulation 6 and the Schedule).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/697/note",
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  },
  "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."
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