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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 in four respects.\nFirst, where a vehicle is required to be fitted with seat belt anchorage points, a vehicle will not have to comply with the design and installation requirements set out in regulation 46(4) of the 1986 Regulations if it complies with ECE Regulation 14 as amended by ECE Regulation 14.01 or by ECE Regulation 14 as amended by ECE Regulations 14.01 and 14.02. There is already the option of complying with ECE Regulation 14.\nSecondly, they make minor changes to the padding requirements set out in regulation 47(2) of the 1986 Regulations which apply where a lap belt is fitted to a forward facing front seat of a minibus, ambulance or motor caravan, or to an exposed forward facing seat (other than the driver’s seat or any crew seat of a coach). In particular they limit the parts of the bars and partitions which have to be padded to those likely to be struck by the head and remove the requirement in so far as it applied to crew seats.\nThirdly, they enable seat belts to be provided in a motor vehicle if they are marked in accordance with:\n(a) Part 1 or 2 of British Standard BS 3254:1988 and BS AU 202a, or\n(b) ECE Regulation 16 as amended by ECE Regulations 16.01, 16.02, 16.03 and 16.04 or ECE Regulation 44 as amended by ECE Regulations 44.01 and 44.02.\nFourthly, they remove from the class of seat belts that can be provided in a motor vehicle, those marked BS AU 157, BS AU 157a, BS AU 160a, BS AU 160b and BS AU 160c.\nThese Regulations also make some minor drafting changes to the 1986 Regulations.\nCopies of the British Standard specifications may be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution, or by post from the British Standards Institution at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE (Telephone number: Milton Keynes (STD 0908) 221166).\nCopies of the relevant ECE Regulations and amendments can be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office. The details of the ECE Regulations are set out in the Tables below.\nPrincipal Instrument\nRelevant Amending Instruments\n1. Regulation 14 dated 30th January 1970 and annexed to the Agreement concerning the adoption of uniform Conditions of approval for motor vehicle parts and reciprocal recognition thereof concluded at Geneva on 2nd March 1958 (Cmnd 2535) as amended (Cmnd 3562) to which the United Kingdom is party by an instrument of accession dated 14th January 1963 deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 15th January 1963.\nRevised on 28th April 1976 corrected on 4th August 1977, 19th July 1978, in September 1979 and amended and corrected on 22nd November 1984.\n2. Regulation 16 dated 14th August 1970 and annexed to that Agreement amended as above.\nRevised on 9th December 1979, corrected on 25th June 1981 and amended on 22nd December 1985.\n3. Regulation 44 dated 1st February 1981 and annexed to that Agreement amended as above.\nAmended on 17th November 1982 and on 4th April 1986.",
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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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