{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1177",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, Commencement and Introduction",
  "text": "(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 hereinafter “the principal Regulations” shall be further amended in accordance with regulation 3.\n(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that —\n(a) it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 3 of these Regulations (being provisions which vary the requirements as regards the construction of certain classes of vehicles) shall apply as from 12th July 1988 to vehicles registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 before the expiration of one year from the making of these Regulations; and\n(b) notwithstanding that the said provisions will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078, relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/1102."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1177/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:58.668870+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."
}