{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-duty-reduced-pollution-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-duty-reduced-pollution-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3094",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle Excise Duty (Reduced Pollution) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-duty-reduced-pollution-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1994 Act” means the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;\n“authorised examiner” means–\n(a) a vehicle examiner appointed by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 66A of the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n(b) a vehicle examiner appointed by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland pursuant to Article 74 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; or\n(c) a person authorised by the Secretary of State to conduct examinations for the purposes of these Regulations; “prescribed adaptation” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 5;\n“prescribed fee” means the fee prescribed by regulation 14;\n“rectification notice” has the meaning given by regulation 11(1);\n“reduced pollution requirements” mean the requirements prescribed by regulation 5(3);\n“registered keeper” in relation to a vehicle means the person in whose name the vehicle is registered under the 1994 Act;\n“vehicle” means a vehicle which is an eligible vehicle within the meaning given by section 61B(4) of the 1994 Act; and\n“vehicle identification number” has the same meaning as in regulation 67 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.\n(2) In these Regulations references to a numbered regulation or schedule are to the regulation of, or schedule to, these Regulations so numbered and references to a numbered paragraph are to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or schedule in which the reference occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52; section 66A was inserted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), section 9(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations; regulation 69 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 (S.R. 1989/299) contains an identical definition."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/3274",
      "affecting_title": "The Vehicle Excise Duty (Reduced Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/3274",
      "affecting_title": "The Vehicle Excise Duty (Reduced Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3094/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:24.667138+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."
}