{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1078",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Silencers-general",
  "text": "(1) Every vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine shall be fitted with an exhaust system including a silencer and the exhaust gases from the engine shall not escape into the atmosphere without first passing through the silencer.\n(2) Every exhaust system and silencer shall be maintained in good and efficient working order and shall not after the date of manufacture be altered so as to increase the noise made by the escape of exhaust gases.\n(3) Instead of complying with paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 77/212, 81/334, 84/372 , 84/424 or 92/97 or ECE Regulation 51.02 or, in the case of a motor cycle other than a moped, 78/1015 , 87/56 or 89/235.\n(4) In this regulation “moped” has the meaning given to it in paragraph (5) of Schedule 9.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(2) substituted (1.7.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/14), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(3) substituted (1.10.1996) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2329), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(3) inserted (1.10.1996) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2329), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 54 heading substituted (1.7.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/14), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in force at 11.8.1986, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:46:09.046037+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."
}