Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1999
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | SI 1999/1521 |
Year | 1999 |
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 19881and 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 19862shall 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)
“(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.”
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
1st June 1999
(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).
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