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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-great-britain-amendment-no2-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1971",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-great-britain-amendment-no2-regulations-1991",
  "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) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984.\nRegulation 3 introduces a new regulation 2A entitled “Interpretation of Instruments referred to in Schedule 1”.\nRegulation 4 revises the type approval requirements relating to brakes so as to take account of amendments to both ECE Regulation 13 and Council Directive 71/320/EEC and to introduce, as an alternative, the requirements of ECE Regulation 78 as amended on 28th November 1990 in relation to category L5 vehicles.\nCopies of the ECE Regulations (and amendments) and of the EEC Directives (and amendments) referred to in these Regulations and in this note can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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