{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-of-reduced-pollution-adaptations-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-of-reduced-pollution-adaptations-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3093",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval of Reduced Pollution Adaptations) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-of-reduced-pollution-adaptations-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed requirements",
  "text": "(1) The requirements specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) below are hereby prescribed as type approval requirements for reduced pollution devices.\n(2) In relation to a vehicle which at the time it was first used was required to meet, or did meet, the requirements as to the rate and content of its particulate emissions specified in an instrument referred to in column (2) of an item in the table below, the prescribed requirements are that the vehicle is so adapted that, when it is tested in accordance with the requirements specified by paragraph (4), the rate and content of its particulate emissions do not exceed the number of grams per kilowatt-hour specified in column (3) of the item.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nItem\nInstrument setting standard to which vehicle was first used\nRate and content of particulate emissions after adaptation (grams per kilowatt-hour)\n1\nDirective 88/77/EEC\n0.16\n2\nDirective 91/542/EEC (limits A)\n0.16\n3\nDirective 91/542 (limits B)\n0.08\n4\nEuropean Commission Proposal (COM (97) 627) for a European and Council Directive amending Council Directive 88/77\n0.04\n(3) A reduced pollution device must be legibly and indelibly marked with a unique marking in such a way as to identify its type.\n(4) The requirements in accordance with which a vehicle is to be tested for the purposes of paragraph (2) are the requirements of the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L36, 9.2.88, page 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L295, 25.10.91, page 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. 98/C 173/1, 8.6.98, page 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/3275",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval of Reduced Pollution Adaptations) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3093/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:25.666175+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}