# The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020, Paragraph 1

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

In this Schedule—
“approval” means—
(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
(b)a document of approval issued under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom,
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;
“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);
“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 );
“effective date” has the meaning given in Part 1 of Schedule 2;
“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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/818/schedule/1/part/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-approval-regulations-2020/schedule-1/part-1/paragraph-1
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