Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles) (Great Britain) Regulations 1982.
Regulations 3 and 4 revise the type approval requirements relating to the exhaust emissions so as to—
provide (by adding a new item 2B to Schedule 1) a new alternative prescribed requirement as a result a Council Directive 88/76/EEC;
provide for the cessation of some of the requirements specified in item 2 and all the requirements specified in item 2A of Schedule 1 on the 30th September 1990, in the case of vehicles for which, or for a model of which, there is a type approval or Minister’s approval certificate in force on the 30th September 1989; and
provide for the cessation of those requirements specified in item 2 and 2A of Schedule 1 on the 30th September 1989, in the case of vehicles for which, or for a model of which, there is no type approval or Minister’s approval certificate in force on that date.
Regulations 5 and 6 and items 7 and 8 of Schedule 1 add new type approval requirements relating to fuel so that vehicles with petrol engines—
will have to be able to be run on unleaded petrol, and
must either be incapable of being readily filled from a petrol pump nozzle with a diameter of 23.6mm or greater, or (if certain conditions are met) be clearly marked (in the prescribed manner) so as to indicate that unleaded petrol can be used.
The date when these new fuel requirements start to apply is determined in accordance with a new Schedule 1A which is added by regulation 7.
Copies of the EEC Directives and ECE Regulations (and amendments) referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.