{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-3A/paragraph-3",
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  "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": "schedule/3A/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The conditions referred to in paragraph 2 are —\n(a) that the vehicle is a model in relation to which there is in force an EEC type approval certificate issued before 1st October 1989;\n(b) that the manufacturer of the vehicle has supplied to the relevant authority which issued the EEC type approval certificate, a certificate stating that adapting vehicles of that model to the fuel requirements specified in the Annexes to Community Directive 88/76 would entail a change in material specification of the inlet or exhaust valve seats or a reduction in the compression ratio or an increase in the engine capacity to compensate for loss of power; and\n(c) that the relevant authority has accepted the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (b).\nTable\nItem\nDescription of vehicle\nDate before which vehicle must be first used\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n1.\nVehicles with an engine capacity of less than 1400cc.\n1.4.92\n2.\nVehicles with an engine capacity of not less than 1400cc and not more than 2000cc.\n1.4.94\n3.\nM1 category vehicles with an engine capacity of more than 2000cc and which —\n(a)are constructed or adapted to carry not more than 5 passengers excluding the driver, or\n(b)have a maximum gross weight of not more than 2500kg.\nnot being in either case, an off-road vehicle.\n1.4.93",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A para. 4 renumbered as Sch. 3A para. 3 (26.6.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1131), regs. 1, 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (1.10.1988) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1524), reg. 1, Sch."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}