These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 18th August 2000.

The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996 are amended as follows.

In paragraph (1) of regulation 3, sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

In paragraph (1) of regulation 5, the word “and” shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (a) and the words from “and” after sub-paragraph (b) to the end of sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.

In paragraph (2) of regulation 12, for sub-paragraph (a) shall be substituted—

“(a)    the letter “R” if the certificate is being issued otherwise than on a basis specified in sub-paragraphs (aa) to (d) below”.

In Schedule 1, paragraph 1 shall be omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

20th July 2000

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996.

Regulations 3 and 4 concern the application of the 1996 Regulations. They remove the requirement (in regulations 3 and 5) that passenger vehicles, other than motor ambulances and motor caravans, and goods vehicles must fall within one of the categories specified in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 will continue to apply for the purposes of regulation 12(2) which concerns the Type Code to be inserted in the Minister's approval certificate. For those purposes, regulation 6 removes the category specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (vehicles entering into service in very low numbers) and regulation 5 provides for certificates to bear the Type Code “R” in the case of vehicles not falling into any of the remaining Schedule 1 categories.