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The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1985

S.I. 1985/46 · Made 17 January 1985 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

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ROAD TRAFFIC

Made 17th January 1985

Laid before Parliament 31st January 1985

Coming into Operation 1st March 1985

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 47(1) and 50(1)of the Road Traffic Act 1972f1, and now vested in himf2 and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 199(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

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Footnotes

f1

as amended and extended by section 10 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50).

f2

S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

Contents

  1. 1Regulation 1 Not yet in force
  2. 2Regulation 2 Not yet in force
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1I1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st March 1985.

2I1

The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982f1 are hereby amended so that in paragraph (2) of Regulation 3, in sub-paragraph (g) for the words “engineering plant, a land tractor” there are substituted the words “an agricultural motor vehicle, engineering plant”.

Signature

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for Transport

17th January 1985

Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982 so that the vehicles to which the Regulations do not apply include an agricultural motor vehicle instead of a land tractor. This amendment follows amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/1017) made by the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/1809).