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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-5-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2137",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-5-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments relating to exhaust emissions",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 61 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 4(b)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (i), for “or 88/76” there shall be substituted “, 88/76 or 91/441”;\n(b) the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (i) shall be omitted;\n(c) for sub-paragraph (ii), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(ii) in a case where the first use is on or after 1st April 1991 but before 31st December 1992, with Community Directive 83/351, 88/76 or 91/441, or ECE Regulation 15.04; or\n(iii) in any other case, with Community Directive 91/441.”\n(3) In paragraph (7)(b), for the words “those requirements would neither” there shall be substituted the words “neither would those requirements”.\n(4) For paragraph (10) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(10) Where a vehicle is constructed or assembled by a person not ordinarily engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles of that description, the date on which it is first used shall, for the purposes of paragraphs (3A), (7), (8) and (9), be regarded as being the 1st January immediately preceding the date of manufacture of the engine by which it is propelled.\nHowever, the date on which a vehicle is first used shall not, by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, be regarded in any circumstances as being later than the date on which it would otherwise have been regarded as being first used had those provisions been omitted.”\n(5) In paragraph (10B), the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (f) shall be omitted, and after sub-paragraph (g) there shall be added the following words—\n“or\n(h) a vehicle first used before 1st August 1987 if the engine is a rotary piston engine; and for the purposes of this paragraph “the engine”, in relation to a vehicle, means the engine by which it is propelled.”\n(6) After paragraph (10B) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(10C) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) any rotary piston engine shall be deemed to be a four-stroke engine; and\n(b) “rotary piston engine” means an engine in which the torque is provided by means of one or more rotary pistons and not by any reciprocating piston.”\n(7) In paragraph (11), after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added the words “and for the purposes of determining whether a vehicle is a vehicle to which item 8, 9 or 10 in that Table applies, regulation 4(2) shall be disregarded”.\n(8) For Table II, there shall be substituted the following Table—\n“\nTABLE II (regulation 61(3A) and (7))\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n(5)\n(6)\nItem\nClass of Vehicle\nDate of First Use\nDesign, construction and equipment requirements\nVehicles exempted from requirements\nEmitted Substances\n(a)\n(b)\nInstrument\nPlace in instrument where requirement where requirements are stated\n1\nVehicles propelled by a spark ignition engine\n1st October 1992\nCommunity Directive 78/665\nor\nECE Regulation 15.03.\nAnnex I, paragraph 3 and 5\nParagraphs 5, 8 and 11\n(a) A vehicle whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3500 kg;\n(b) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 2, 4, 5 or 8;\n(c) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(d) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n2\nAll vehicles.\n1st April 1991.\nCommunity Directive 83/351\nor\nECE Regulation 15.04.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8\nParagraphs 5, 8 and 12.\n(a) A vehicle propelled by a compression ignition engine and whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3500 kg;\n(b) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 4, 5 and 8;\n(c) A vehicle within the meaning given by Article 1 of Community Directive 88/77 and which complies with the requirements of item 6, 9 or 10;\n(d) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(e) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(f) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n3\nIndustrial tractors, works trucks and engineering plant propelled in each case by a compression ignition engine.\n1st April 1993.\nECE Regulation 49.\nParagraphs 5 and 7.\nA vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 6, 9 or 10.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n4.\nPassenger vehicles which—\n(a) are constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver, and\n(b) have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kg.\nnot being off-road vehicles.\n1st April 1991.\nCommunity Directive 88/76\nor\nCommunity Directive 89-458\nor\nECE Regulation 83.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8.\nParagraphs 5, 8 and 13.\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 2 or 8;\n(b) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(c) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n5\nVehicles which are not of a description specified in this column in item 4 but which—\n(a) are propelled by a spark ignition engine and have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2000 kg, or\n(b) are propelled by a compression ignition engine and have a maximum gross weight of more than 3500 kg.\n1st April 1992.\n1st April 1991.\nCommunity Directive 88/76\nor\nECE Regulation 83.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8.\nParagraphs 5, 8 and 13.\n(a) A vehicle within the meaning given by Article 1 of Community Directive 88/77 and which complies with the requirements of item 6, 9 or 10;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(d) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8;\n(e) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbonmonoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n6\nAll vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines.\n1st April 1991.\nCommunity Directive 88/77\nor\nECE Regulation 49.01.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 6, 7 and 8.\nParagraphs 5, 6 and 7.\n(a) A vehicle whose maximum gross weight is less than 3500 kg and which complies with the requirements of item 2;\n(b) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 4, 5, 8, 9 or 10;\n(c) A fire appliance which is first used before 1st October 1992;\n(d) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(e) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen.\n7\nPassenger vehicles which—\n(a) are constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver,\n(b) have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500 kg, and\n(c) are propelled by a compression ignition engine of the indirect injection type.\n1st April 1991.\nCommunity Directive 88/436.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8, as far as they relate to particulate emissions.\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8;\n(b) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(c) An off-road vehicle;\n(d) An exempt vehicle.\nParticulates.\n8\nAll vehicles.\n31st December 1992.\nCommunity Directive 91/441.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8.\n(a) A vehicle within the meaning given by Article 1 of Community Directive 88/77 and which complies with the requirements of item 6 and is first used before 1st October 1993 or which complies with the requirements of item 9 or 10;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) A vehicle whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(d) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons oxides of nitrogen, and particulates.\n9\nAll vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines.\n1st October 1993.\nCommunity Directive 91/542.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 (excluding line B in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 6.2.1 and 8.3.1.1).\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8 or 10;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and particulates.\n10\nAll vehicles propelled by compression ignition engines.\n1st October 1996.\nCommunity Directive 91/542.\nAnnex I, paragraphs 6,7 and 8 (excluding line A in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 6.2.1 and 8.3.1.1).\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and particulates.\n”",
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