{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1984/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1984/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Regulation 3 (Application of Regulations)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for the word “tractor” substitute the word “tractive”;\n(b) for paragraph (2)(e) substitute the following paragraphs:—\n“(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—\n(i) is not intended for general use on roads, and\n(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—\n(A) if the vehicle is of a new or improved type the manufacturer of the vehicle, or\n(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;\n(ee) a motor vehicle the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1525 kilograms which is of a new or improved type provided that—\n(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—\n(A) in the manner approved in accordance with Regulation 7 for a type approval certificate for the type, or\n(B) in the manner approved in accordance with Regulation 8 for a Minister's approval certificate in respect of a vehicle of the type,\nand 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;\n(ii) the Secretary of State has been notified of the vehicle identification number in a manner approved by him;\n(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\n(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—\n(A) remains in the ownership of the person who made the application referred to in sub-paragraph (i); and\n(B) is not offered for sale or supply, or sold or supplied, by retail;”;\nand\n(c) 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”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/697/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:40:38.296780+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}