Regulation 18 Individual approvalI1

be a qualifying applicant, and

make an application to the approval authority.

has been completed so as to provide all the information reasonably required by the authority in relation to the vehicle for which the application is made, and

is accompanied by the documents mentioned in the form as being so required,

the application F3for a UK (NI) national individual vehicle approval made under paragraph (1) is an application pursuant to Article 45 of the F4EU Type Approval Regulation; and

the vehicle to which the application relates is covered by a non-UK approval.

evidence to the satisfaction of the approval authority of the type approval number of the vehicle concerned, where the vehicle has been type approved pursuant to Article 42 of the F5EU Type Approval Regulation under the law of a member State F6...; or

a copy of—

the place at which the examination of the vehicle is to be carried out, and

the date and time at which the examination is to begin.

the applicant must attend with the vehicle, or arrange for the vehicle to be produced, at the time and place specified in the notice unless otherwise agreed with the approval authority, and

the approval authority may decline to proceed with the examination at that time and place if it is considered unsafe or otherwise unreasonable to do so.

make the decision whether or not to grant F7a GB individual vehicle approval in accordance with Article 44 or Article 45 of the Type Approval Regulation, F8...

make the decision whether or not to grant an EU individual vehicle approval in accordance with Article 44 of the EU Type Approval Regulation;

make the decision whether or not to grant a UK (NI) national individual vehicle approval in accordance with Article 45 of the EU Type Approval Regulation; and

give notice to the applicant accordingly.

the alternative requirements required to be imposed under Article 45(1) of the Type Approval Regulation F11or the EU Type Approval Regulation are the technical or other requirements specified in Schedule 2;

where paragraph (3) applies, the approval authority must grant F12a UK (NI) national individual vehicle approval unless there are reasonable grounds to believe that the technical provisions under which the non-UK approval covering the vehicle was granted are not equivalent to those applying in F13Northern Ireland.

is constructed or adapted for use in left-hand traffic, and

uses imperial units of measurement for the speedometer.

if the application relates to Great Britain, a GB individual approval certificate;

in the application relates to Northern Ireland—

particulars of the vehicle or vehicle part to which the certificate related, and

either the serial number of the original certificate or such other information concerning the original certificate as is available and is reasonably required for enabling the records relating to the original certificate to be searched and the particulars of the original traced.

the defaced certificate, and

(if the serial number of that certificate is no longer legible) by such other information concerning the original certificate as is available and is reasonably required for enabling the records relating to the original certificate to be searched and the particulars of the original traced.