Regulation 4 Amendments to regulation 4 (application of type approval requirements)

Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.

In paragraph (1), before “(2)” there shall be inerted “(1A),” and for the words “used on a road” there shall be substituted the word “registered”.

After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A)

In relation to a particular vehicle—

(a)

a type approval requirement applicable to the vehicle at the date of manufacture shall continue to apply to it until it is registered; and

(b)

a type approval requirement which is applicable to vehicles as from a date after that vehicle was manufactured shall not apply to the vehicle unless the subject matter of the requirement is the same as that of a requirement applicable to it on the date it was manufactured;

but nothing in this paragraph affects the operation of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) in so far as it relates to item 4G of Schedule 1 (exhaust emission requirements).”

After paragraph (11), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(12)

In this regulation, “prescribed” means prescribed under section 54 and 63(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.”