{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tyres-safety-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tyres-safety-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2877",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles Tyres (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tyres-safety-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 4 shall be renumbered as regulation 4(1); in that provision as so renumbered for the words “the British Standard Automobile Series” onwards there shall be substituted “BS AU 144e: 1988”; and after that provision as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—\n“(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the supply of a tyre if the conditions specified in paragraph (3) below are satisfied in relation to the tyre.\n(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph(2) above are satisfied by compliance with—\n(a) a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any member State;\n(b) any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any member State; or\n(c) a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any member State,\nif the standard, code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to retreaded tyres, a level of safety equivalent to that provided by BS AU 144e: 1988 and contains a requirement as respects the marking of tyres equivalent to that provided by that instrument.\n(4) In relation to the supply of a tyre before 1st December 1995, paragraph (1) above shall have effect as if the reference to BS AU 144e: 1988 were a reference to BS AU 144b: 1977, BS AU 144c: 1988, BS AU 144d: 1988 or BS AU 144e: 1988.\n(5) In relation to the supply of a tyre before 1st December 1995, paragraph (3) above shall have effect as if the reference to BS AU 144e: 1988 were a reference to BS AU 144b: 1977, BS AU 144c: 1988, BS AU 144d: 1988 or BS AU 144e: 1988.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2877/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:46:51.261292+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."
}