Regulation 11A Modifications in relation to vehicles approved under the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001F1

In this regulation—

• “the Approval Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001;

• “coefficient of luminous intensity” has the same meaning as in F2ECE Regulation 3 as amended by the 01 series of amendments (as in force on 20^th March 1982);

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• “relevant vehicle approval certificate” means a Department’s approval certificate in the form prescribed by the Approval Regulations which appears to have been issued on the basis that the vehicle is a vehicle to which Part II of those Regulations applies;

• “relevant vehicle” means a vehicle in respect of which an approval certificate containing the letter “P” has been issued pursuant to regulation 9(2) of the Approval Regulations;

• “standard mark” means a mark which when applied to a lamp, reflector or device indicates compliance with the requirements of a particular instrument; and a reference to the instrument to which a standard mark relates shall be construed accordingly.

The requirements of the Schedules, so far as they require any lamp, reflector or device to bear a particular standard mark (or one of two or more standard marks), shall not apply to a lamp, reflector or device if it is fitted to a relevant vehicle and—

of the instrument to which the standard mark (or as the case may be one of those standard marks) relates.

The requirements of these Regulations so far as they require headlamps (including a filament lamp fitted to a headlamp) fitted to a vehicle to bear a particular standard mark (or one of two or more standard marks) shall not apply to the headlamps fitted to a relevant vehicle if they emit sufficient light to illuminate the road in front of the vehicle on both main beam and dipped beam.

Table 1 of Schedule 1 shall apply to a vehicle in respect of which a relevant vehicle approval certificate has been issued as if the entry that relates to dim-dip devices and running lamps were omitted.

Paragraph 5 (markings) of Part I of Schedule 7 shall apply to a vehicle in respect of which a relevant vehicle approval certificate has been issued as if the vehicle were of a description falling within sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph.