Regulation 3

in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for the word “tractor” substitute the word “tractive”;

for paragraph (2)(e) substitute the following paragraphs:—

“(e)

a motor vehicle which is of a new or improved type, or is fitted with equipment of a new or improved type, and which has been constructed to that type or fitted with that equipment, for the purposes of tests or trials or for use as a prototype, and—

(i)

is not intended for general use on roads, and

(ii)

in the case of a vehicle first used on a road on or after 20th June 1984, remains in the ownership and the use of—

(A)

if the vehicle is of a new or improved type the manufacturer of the vehicle, or

(B)

if the vehicle is fitted with equipment of a new or improved type the manufacturer of the equipment or the manufacturer of the vehicle on which that equipment is used;

(ee)

a motor vehicle the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1525 kilograms which is of a new or improved type provided that—

(i)

a final examination has been carried out in respect of a vehicle to which the vehicle is alleged to conform following a written application made either—

(A)

in the manner approved in accordance with Regulation 7 for a type approval certificate for the type, or

(B)

in the manner approved in accordance with Regulation 8 for a Minister's approval certificate in respect of a vehicle of the type,

and as a result of the examination the Secretary of State is satisfied that the relevant type approval requirements specified in Schedule 1 are complied with;

(ii)

the Secretary of State has been notified of the vehicle identification number in a manner approved by him;

(iii)

the vehicle is being used for no purpose other than for, or in connection with, publicity, demonstration or evaluation of that type of vehicle; and

(iv)

until, following the examination mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), there has been issued a type approval certificate or, as the case may be, a Minister's approval certificate, the vehicle—

(A)

remains in the ownership of the person who made the application referred to in sub-paragraph (i); and

(B)

is not offered for sale or supply, or sold or supplied, by retail;”;

and

in paragraph (2)(h) for the words “of a kind described in” substitute the words “the use of which on a road is authorised by”.