{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) ... This Order applies to all passenger cars about whose fuel consumption provision may be made by Orders under section 15 which are motor cars having four wheels or more and are propelled by spark ignition or compression ignition engines ... except:\n(a) cars constructed or adapted for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability;\n(b) cars manufactured for use outside the United Kingdom;\n(c) cars originally constructed for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description;\n(d) cars to which the Passenger Car (Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions Information) Regulations 2001 apply.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this Article “motor car” has the same meaning as in section 185(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.",
  "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. 4(1) omitted (1.6.1996) by virtue of The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (1.6.1996) by The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) omitted (1.6.1996) by virtue of The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 4(1)(d) added (21.11.2001) by The Passenger Car (Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions Information) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3523), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 4(2) omitted (1.6.1996) by virtue of The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) substituted (1.6.1996) by The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}