{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1486",
  "legislation_title": "The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Information as to test results",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 15(3), the information as to the results of the relevant official tests to be included in material issued to the general public or in manuals or handbooks shall be information as to the fuel consumption expressed both in miles per gallon and in litres per 100 kilometres of the class of car to which the tests relate as determined by those tests and recorded in an official fuel economy certificate.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (d) of section 15(3), the information relating to cars which have been subjected to the relevant official tests shall be the information as to the results of the tests which the Secretary of State has last caused to be published under Articles 7(3) or 9(4).\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of section 15(3), the label to be affixed to a car shall—\n(a) in all respects (except size but including layout and variation of type) be—\n(i) in a case where the car has been tested under the ECE test procedure or the EEC test procedure, in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 5;\n(ii) in a case where the car has been tested under the new EEC test procedure in the form set out in Part II of Schedule 5;\n(iii) in a case where the car has been tested in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) and the particulars submitted to the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 6(2)(c) included the particulars specified in paragraph 12.1 of Part III of Schedule 2, in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 5; and\n(iv) in a case where the car has been tested in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) and the particulars submitted to the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 6(2)(c) included the particulars specified in paragraph 12.2 of Part III of Schedule 2, in the form set out in Part II of Schedule 5, and\n(b) be no smaller in size than the appropriate form in Schedule 5.\n(3A) The appropriate form shall, in all cases, be completed by the insertion in permanent and legible characters in the appropriate spaces of—\n(a) a distinctive reference to the models, that is to say the description of cars, to which the relevant official tests relate; and\n(b) the results expressed in litres per 100 kilometres and miles per gallon of each test specified on the form.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (3) above, amendments to an official fuel economy certificate shall be disregarded if they are made less than two months before the car for the first purchaser of which the manual or handbook is issued or, as the case may be, to which the label is to be affixed leaves the factory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.S.) (31.12.2013) by The Control of Fuel and Electricity, Local Government and Transport (Revocations and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2986), art. 1, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 14(2) substituted (1.6.1996) by The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 14(3)(3A) substituted for art. 14(3) (1.6.1996) by The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 15.11.1983, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1486/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:56:50.432700+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."
}