{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/schedule-1/part-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/schedule-1/part-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/818",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“approval” means—\n(a)a certificate of type approval (including a certificate issued in accordance with Council Directive 70/156/EEC or Directive 2007/46/EC) issued in the United Kingdom or a member State, or\n(b)a document of approval issued under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom,\nwhich is sufficient to show that a vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit complies with a requirement specified in column 1 of a table in this Schedule;\n“certificate of conformity” means a certificate of conformity issued in respect of a type approval granted in the United Kingdom or a member State (including a type approval granted before 5th July 2020);\n“disabled person's vehicle” means a vehicle constructed or adapted to enable a person with a disability to travel in the vehicle as a driver or a passenger, in safety and reasonable comfort (and “disability” has the same meaning as in section 6(1) of the Equality Act 2010 );\n“effective date” has the meaning given in Part 1 of Schedule 2;\n“test report” means a report issued by a technical service (within the meaning of Article 3(38) of the Type Approval Regulation or, in the case of a UK (NI) national small series type-approval, the EU Type Approval Regulation) which is sufficient to show that a vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit complies with a requirement specified in column 1 of a table in this Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1 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), 18(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1 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), 18(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1 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), 18(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2010 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 1 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/schedule/1/part/1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}