{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-and-goods-vehicles-recording-equipment-regulations-1979/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-and-goods-vehicles-recording-equipment-regulations-1979/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1746",
  "legislation_title": "The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-and-goods-vehicles-recording-equipment-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Installation or repair of recording equipment, checks and inspections",
  "text": "(1) This Regulation applies to—\n(a) the approval by the Secretary of State of fitters and workshops for the installation or repair of recording equipment in accordance with Article 22 of the EU Tachographs Regulation; and\n(b) the approval and nomination by the Secretary of State of bodies for the carrying out of checks and inspections of recording equipment in accordance with Chapter VI of Annex I , or Chapter VI of Annex IB, to that Regulation.\n(2) An approval or nomination shall be in writing, shall specify its scope, shall provide for its withdrawal by the Secretary of State on notice given by him and, if the Secretary of State thinks fit, may contain conditions.\n(3) Such conditions may in particular relate to—\n(a) the fees to be charged for installing or repairing or, as the case may be, checking or inspecting recording equipment;\n(b) the places where and equipment by means of which such activities are, or are to be, carried out;\n(c) the procedure to be adopted in carrying out such activities;\n(d) the records to be kept and the evidence to be furnished of the carrying out of such activities;\n(e) the training of persons for carrying out such activities;\n(f) the inspection by or on behalf of the Secretary of State of places where and equipment by means of which such activities are, or are to be, carried out; and\n(g) the display, at the places where such activities are carried out, of signs indicating that such activities are carried out there by fitters or workshops approved or, as the case may be, bodies nominated, by the Secretary of State.\n(4) The Secretary of State shall publish from time to time lists of—\n(a) the fitters and workshops for the time being approved by him; and\n(b) the bodies for the time being nominated by him;\nand any list published under sub-paragraph (a) above shall specify the mark to be placed by each approved fitter or workshop on any seals which he or they affix to any recording equipment.\n(5) In this Regulation “recording equipment” means equipment for recording information as to the use of a vehicle.\n(6) A reference in this Regulation to Annex IB to the EU Tachographs Regulation has effect, until the coming into force of that Annex, as a reference to Annex IB to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport as read with the Community Drivers’ Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 2007.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (13.3.1984) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/144), regs. 1, 3(1) (with reg. 3(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 48(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 48(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 48(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(b) inserted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 48(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 4(6) inserted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1746/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:07:36.070022+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."
}