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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-5-regulations-1997/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1544",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997",
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  "text": "TABLE II\n(regulation 61(3A), (3C), (7), (11) and (12))\n(1) Item\n(2) Class of Vehicle\n(3) Date of First Use\n(4) Design, construction and equipment requirements\n(a) Instrument\n(b) Place in instrument where requirements are stated\n(5) Vehicles exempted from requirements\n(6) Emitted substances\n1\nVehicles propelled by a spark ignition engine.\n1st October 1982\nCommunity Directive 78/665\nor\nECE Regulation 15.03\nAnnex I, paragraphs 3 and 5.\nParagraphs 5, 8 and 11.\n(a) A vehicle whose maximum gross weight exceeds 3,500 kg;\n(b) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12 or 13;\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 3,500 kg;\n(b) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 4, 5, 8, 11, 12 or 13;\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, 10, 11, 12 or 13.\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 2,500 kg, not 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, 8, 11, 12 or 13;\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 2,000 kg,\nor\n(b) are propelled by a compression ignition engine and have a maximum gross weight of more than 3,500 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, 10, 11, 12 or 13;\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.\nCarbon monoxide, 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 3,500 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, 10, 11, 12 or 13;\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 2,500 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, 11, 12 or 13;\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\nor\nECE Regulation 83.01\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—\n(i) complies with the requirements of item 6 and is first used before 1st October 1993, or\n(ii) complies with the requirements of item 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13;\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 a compression ignition engine.\n1st October 1993\nCommunity Directive 91/542\nor\nECE Regulation 49.02\nAnnex I, paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 (excluding line B in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 6.2.1 and 8.3.1.1).\nParagraphs 5, 6 and 7 (excluding line B in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 5.2.1 and 7.4.2.1).\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8, 10, 11, 12 or 13;\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 a compression ignition engine.\n1st October 1996\nCommunity Directive 91/542\nor\nECE Regulation 49.02\nAnnex I, paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 (excluding line A in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 6.2.1 and 8.3.1.1).\nParagraphs 5, 6 and 7 (excluding line A in the Tables in sub-paragraphs 5.2.1 and 7.4.2.1).\n(a) A vehicle which complies with the requirements of item 8, 11, 12 or 13;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and particulates.\n11\nAll vehicles.\n1st October 1994\nCommunity Directive 93/59\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 items 9, 10, 12 or 13;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) Vehicles whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(d) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and particulates.\n12\nAll vehicles.\n1st January 1997\nCommunity Directive 94/12\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 items 9, 10, 11 or 13;\n(b) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(c) Vehicles whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(d) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and particulates.\n13\nAll vehicles.\n1st October 1997\nCommunity Directive 96/69\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 items 9, 10, or 12;\n(b) A vehicle as defined in column 2 of item 14;\n(c) An industrial tractor, works truck or engineering plant;\n(d) Vehicles whose maximum speed is less than 50 km/h;\n(e) An exempt vehicle.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and particulates.\n14\nVehicles falling within\n(a) Class II or III, as specified in the Annex to Community Directive 96/69, of category N1, or\n(b) Category M and specified in footnote (2) of that Annex.\nNote: references to categories M and N1 are to those categories as specified in Annex II of the Framework Directive.\n1st October 1998\nCommunity Directive 96/69\nAnnex 1, paragraphs 5, 7 and 8.\nCarbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and particulates.",
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