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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 1825

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2001

  Made 9th May 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 10th May 2001 
  Coming into force 1st August 2001 

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[1] and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st August 2001.

Preliminary
     2. The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986[2] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment to regulation 61A
     3.  - (1) Regulation 61A shall be amended by the insertion in the third column of the Table the entry specified below.

    (2) In item 1, after the last entry there shall be inserted - 

"2001/1/EC"

Amendment to Schedule 2
     4. In Table I in Schedule 2, after item 80 there shall be inserted the following item - 

"81 2001/1 22.01.2001 L35, 06.2.2001, p. 34 Measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles 70/220 as amended by 74/290, 77/102, 78/665, 83/351, 88/76, 88/436, 89/491, 91/441, 93/59, 94/12, 96/44, 96/69, 98/69, and 1999/102          "


Amendment to Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles)
     5. In Schedule 7B, in paragraph 7 for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph - 



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

9th May 2001


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

Regulation 3 adds a reference to a recent Directive 2001/1 into item 1 of the Table in regulation 61A.

Regulation 4 adds the Directive to the list of Community Directives specified in Schedule 2.

Regulation 5 amends the definition of "the emissions publication" in Schedule 7B so as to refer to the most recent (i.e. the seventh) edition of the publication entitled "In-Service Exhaust Emission Standards for Road Vehicles". The publication specifies, with respect to vehicles with spark ignition engines, the maximum permitted carbon monoxide content of exhaust emissions at idling speed and the limits for the ratio of air to petrol vapour entering the combustion chamber, in relation to each of the vehicle models named in the publication.

Copies of the emissions publication can be obtained from the Vehicle Inspectorate, Berkeley House, Croydon Street, Bristol BS5 0DA (telephone number 0117-954-3277).

Notes:

 [1] 1988 c. 52; section 41(2) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 50.back

[2] S.I. 1986/1078; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/2210, 1996/2085, 1997/1544, 1998/1563, 1999/1521, 1999/1959, 2000/1434 and 2000/3197.back


ISBN 0 11 029530 7


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 4 June 2001

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