{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-individual-approval-fees-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-individual-approval-fees-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/718",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Individual Approval) (Fees) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-individual-approval-fees-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“Approval Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020;\n“ACS vehicle” means a vehicle as described in paragraphs 6, 8 or 9 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Approval Regulations;\n“appeal” means an appeal made in accordance with regulation 19(2) and (3) of the Approval Regulations;\n“applicant” means a qualifying applicant as defined in regulation 18(11) of the Approval Regulations;\n“application” means an application (whether an original application or a further application) made in accordance with regulation 18(1) and (2) of the Approval Regulations;\n“approval authority” means the Secretary of State;\n“bank holiday” means a day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 is a bank holiday;\n“EU Type-Approval Regulation” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Approval Regulations;\n“examination” means the examination or further examination of a vehicle in accordance with regulation 18(5) of the Approval Regulations;\n“exceptional circumstances” means an accident, a fire, an epidemic, severe weather, a failure in the supply of essential services or other unexpected happening (excluding a breakdown or mechanical defect in a vehicle);\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“ GB individual approval” means the process of certification that a particular vehicle, whether unique or not, satisfies the relevant administrative and technical requirements prescribed in respect of Great Britain by the Approval Regulations (and particularly Chapter 2 of Part 3 of those Regulations);\n“out of hours” means at any time—\n(a)on any day which is—\n(i)a Saturday or Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday; or\n(ii)a bank holiday; or\n(b)on any other day, other than between—\n(i)8.00am and 5.00pm on a Monday to Thursday inclusive; or\n(ii)8.00am and 4.30pm on a Friday;\n“re-examination” means a re-examination of a vehicle in accordance with regulation 19 of the Approval Regulations;\n“the Type Approval Regulation” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Approval Regulations;\n“UK (NI) individual approval” means the process of certification that a particular vehicle, whether unique or not, satisfies the relevant administrative and technical requirements prescribed in respect of Northern Ireland by the Approval Regulations (and particularly Chapter 2 of Part 3 of those Regulations);\n“working day” means Monday to Friday inclusive, excluding any day which is a bank holiday.\n(2) In these Regulations expressions relating to vehicle categories are to be construed in accordance with Article 4 of the Type Approval Regulation or in the case of a UK (NI) individual approval, the EU Type-Approval Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(i) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(ii) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(iii) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(iv) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(v) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(vi) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.9.2020) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(vii) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(viii) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(a)(ix) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 22(2)(b) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2022 at 11.00 p.m.) by The Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1273), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/718/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:14:34.286851+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."
}