{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-2-regulations-2011/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/3065",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-2-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "End-of-series exemption",
  "text": "(1) For regulation 61C (“end-of-series exemption”), substitute—\n“End-of-series exemption\n61C. (1) The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 10 and Annex 1 of European Community Regulation 715/2007 shall—\n(a) in relation to complete end-of-series vehicles—\n(i) of category N1 class II and III, and\n(ii) of category N2 having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms,\nbe deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 31st December 2012;\n(b) in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles of category N1 class I, be deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2012;\n(c) in relation to end-of-series completed multi-stage build vehicles—\n(i) of category N1 class II and III, and\n(ii) of category N2 having a reference mass not exceeding 2,610 kilograms,\nbe deemed to be fulfilled for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th June 2013.\n(2) The requirements in articles 4 to 6 and 8 and Annex I of European Community Regulation 595/2009 shall—\n(a) for category N2 end-of-series vehicles having a reference mass exceeding 2,610 kilograms, and\n(b) category N3 end-of-series vehicles,\nbe deemed to be fulfilled, in relation to complete vehicles, for the period beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 30th December 2014, or in the case of completed multi-stage build vehicles, beginning with the relevant date and ceasing at the end of 29th June 2015.\n(3) For the purpose of paragraphs (1) and (2), a vehicle is an end-of-series vehicle if—\n(a) three months or more before the relevant date, a certificate of conformity or a Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(4) of the 1988 Act was in force for the vehicle, and the Minister’s approval certificate issued under section 58(1) of that Act or type approval certificate (as the case may be) had been issued by virtue of an emissions requirement that—\n(i) then applied to the vehicle, but\n(ii) apart from this regulation, would have ceased to apply on the relevant date, and\n(b) it is in the territory of an EEA state on the relevant date.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“category N1 class I” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass not exceeding 1,305 kilograms;\n“category N1 class II” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,305 kilograms but not exceeding 1,760 kilograms;\n“category N1 class III” means a motor vehicle with at least 4 wheels designed or constructed for the carriage of goods and having a reference mass exceeding 1,760 kilograms;\n“category N2” and “category N3” have the respective meanings given in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC;\n“complete vehicle” means any vehicle which need not be completed in order to meet the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC;\n“completed multi-stage build vehicle” means a vehicle resulting from the process of multi-stage type-approval which meets the relevant technical requirements of Directive 2007/46/EC;\n“reference mass” has the meaning given in Article 3(3) of European Community Regulation 715/2007;\n“relevant date” means—\n(i) in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (1) applies, the date on which the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 come into force, and\n(ii) in relation to vehicles to which paragraph (2) applies, 31st December 2013.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 on type approval of motor vehicles (Euro 5 and 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information (OJ No L 171, 29.6.2007, p.1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 692/2008 of 18 July 2008 (OJ No L 199, 28.7.2008, p.1) and Commission Regulation (EU) No 566/2011 of 8 June 2011 (OJ No L 158, 16.6.2011, p.1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on type approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information and amending Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 and Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 80/1269/EEC, 2005/55/EC and 2005/78/EC (OJ No L 188, 18.7.2009, p.1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 of 25 May 2011 (OJ No L 167, 25.6.2011, p.1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles (OJ No L 263, 9.10.2007, p.1), commonly referred to as the “Framework Directive”, amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1060/2008 of 7 October 2008 (OJ No L 292, 31.10.2008, p.1); Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 (OJ Ref L 35, 4.2.2009, p.1); Regulation (EC) No 79/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 (OJ No L 35, 4.2.2009, p.32); Commission Regulation (EC) No 385/2009 of 7 May 2009 (OJ No L 118, 13.5.2009, p.13); Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 (OJ No L 200, 31.7.2009, p.1); Commission Directive 2010/19/EU of 9 March 2010 (OJ No L 72, 20.3.2010, p.17); Commission Decision 2011/415/EU of 14 July 2011 (OJ No L 185, 15.7.2011, p.76); Commission Regulation (EU) No 371/2010 of 16 April 2010 (OJ No L 110, 1.5.2010, p.1); Commission Regulation (EU) No 582/2011 of 25 May 2011 (OJ No L 167, 25.6.2011, p1) and Commission Regulation (EU) No 678/2011 of 14 July 2011 (OJ No L 185, 15.7.2011, p.30)."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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