Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1521

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

1st June 1999

Laid before Parliament

3rd June 1999

Coming into force

1st August 1999

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 of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st August 1999.

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 of Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles)

3. In Schedule 7B, in paragraph 7 for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph-�

"(b)"the emissions publication" is the publication entitled "In-Service Exhaust Emissions Standards for Road Vehicles -� Fifth Edition" (ISBN 0-�9526457-�4-�2) published by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

1st June 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the definition of "the emissions publication" in Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 so as to refer to the most recent (i.e. the fifth) edition of this publication. 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 0117 954 3277).

(1)

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

(2)

S.I. 1986/1078; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/2210, 1996/2085, 1997/1544, 1998/1563.