# The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption Order 1983, Article 3: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In this Order—
“the applicant” means the person by whom, or under arrangements made by whom, the tests are carried out under the provisions of Article 6;
“EEA State” means a State which is a contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;
“the ECE Regulation” means ECE Regulation 84 (subject to corrigendum 1 dated 17th February 1992), which entered into force on 15th July 1990 as an annex to the Geneva Agreement;
“an ECE fuel consumption document” means a document in the form set out in Annex 2 to the ECE Regulation issued by the Secretary of State or by the competent authority of a country which is a party to the Geneva Agreement;
“an EEC fuel consumption document” means a document in the form set out in Annex II to the Fuel Consumption Directive or in Annex II to the Amended Fuel Consumption Directive issued by the Secretary of State or by the competent authority of an EEA State;
“the ECE test procedure” means the procedure for the carrying out of tests of the fuel consumption of vehicles specified in regulation 5 of, and Annexes 4 and 5 to, the ECE Regulation;
“the EEC test procedure” means the procedure for the carrying out of tests specified i paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Annex I to the Fuel Consumption Directive and “the new EEC test procedure” means the procedure for the carrying out of tests specified in paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Annex I to the Amended Fuel Consumption Directive;
“the Fuel Consumption Directive” means Council Directive No 80/1268/EEC of 16th December 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the fuel consumption of motor vehicles and “the Amended Fuel Consumption Directive” means the Fuel Consumption Directive as amended by Commission Directive 93/116/EC of 17th December 1993;
“the Geneva Agreement” means the Agreement concerning the adoption of uniform conditions of approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts and reciprocal recognition thereof concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958, as amended, to which the United Kingdom is a party;
“official fuel economy certificate” means—
(a)a certificate in which the Secretary of State has, pursuant to Article 7(2), recorded the results of official tests; or
(b)a document which, by virtue of Article 7(1), is to be treated as an official fuel economy certificate,
and references (however expressed) to the results of tests recorded in an official fuel economy certificate include references to results recorded in a document which is to be treated as an official fuel economy certificate;
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“section 15” means section 15 of the Energy Act 1976;
(2) “light oil” and “heavy oil” have the same meanings as in section 1(3) and 1(4) respectively of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979.
(3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered Article or Schedule is a reference to the Article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order and any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the Article or Schedule in which the reference appears.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1486/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-3
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