{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/818",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Market surveillance authority",
  "text": "The Secretary of State is the market surveillance authority for the purposes of—\n(a) these Regulations , the Type Approval Regulation and the EU Type Approval Regulation, ...\n(b) where applied by the Type Approval Regulation or otherwise applicable to relevant products, Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 , and\n(c) where applied by the EU Type Approval Regulation, or otherwise applicable to relevant products, Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products, as that Regulation has effect by virtue of the Northern Ireland Protocol.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(a) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 13(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(a) omitted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 13(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(c) and word inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 13(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 218, 13.8.2008, p.30."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.9.2020, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/818/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:15.937710+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."
}