{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-regulations-1980/regulation-12A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-regulations-1980/regulation-12A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1182",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-regulations-1980",
  "path": "regulation/12A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12A",
  "heading": "Recording equipment which breaches the type approval requirements or displays a general defect",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, by notice under Regulation 13, cancel a type-approval certificate relating to a relevant component of recording equipment if satisfied that the component—\n(a) is not in conformity with the type-approval requirements, or\n(b) displays a general defect during use which makes it unsuitable for the purpose for which it is intended.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, each of the following is a relevant component of recording equipment—\n(a) the component referred to as a vehicle unit or control device;\n(b) the component referred to as a motion sensor or distance and speed sensor;\n(c) the component referred to as a model record sheet;\n(d) the component referred to as a tachograph card or memory card.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12A inserted (26.3.2019) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(2), 23(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1182/regulation/12A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:56:02.602490+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."
}