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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1508",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-for-goods-vehicles-great-britain-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984. Regulation 4 provides an exemption from type approval for recovery vehicles first used before 1st January 1988. This exemption comes into force at the same time as a new taxation class for such vehicles.\nRegulation 5 amends the provisions relating to the dates when certain of the type approval requirements concerning noise and silencers, and brakes, shall cease to apply to some descriptions of vehicles.\nRegulation 6 provides an exemption from the type approval requirements concerning exhaust emissions for vehicles fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, and regulation 7 specifies alternative type approval requirements concerning diesel exhaust emissions.\nRegulations 8 and 9 revise the type approval requirements for noise and silencers so that, by a staged introduction, the requirements of Council Directive 84/424/EEC are made mandatory by the earliest operative dates.\nVehicles next described for which, or for a model of which, there is no type approval certificate or Minister’s approval certificate in force must meet the requirements as follows:—\n(i) vehicles propelled by other than compression ignition and not exceeding 3.5 tonnes maximum gross weight by 30th September 1988, and\n(ii) vehicles propelled by compression ignition or vehicles propelled by other than compression ignition and exceeding 3.5 tonnes maximum gross weight by 30th September 1989.\nFor vehicles shown in (i) and (ii) for which, or for a model of which, there is a type approval certificate or Minister’s approval certificate in force on the respective operative date given above, that date is deferred one year.\nRegulation 10 revises the type approval requirements relating to brakes with the effect that, by a staged introduction, all new vehicles must comply with the provisions of either Council Directive 71/320/EEC as amended by Commission Directives 74/132/EEC, 75/524/EEC, 79/489/EEC and 85/647/EEC or ECE Regulation 13 (05 series of amendments).\nFinally, regulation 11 amends the references to the Construction and Use Regulations, to refer to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.\nCopies of the EEC Directives and ECE Regulations referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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