Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 2934

ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Made
10th December 1997

Laid before Parliament
10th December 1997

Coming into force
31st December 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 63 and 66 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 Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996

2.—(1) The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996(2) shall be further amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 14(3) (obligatory certificates) for “1st January 1998” there shall be substituted “1st May 1998”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
10th December 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996 by postponing from 1st January 1998 to 1st May 1998 the date specified in regulation 14(3) of those Regulations (obligatory certificates).


(1)
1988 c. 52: section 63 was amended by the Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1992, S.I. 1992/3107 and section 66 was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22), Schedule 3, paragraph 24(1) and by S.I. 1992/3107.

(2)
S.I. 1996/3013, amended by S.I. 1997/1366.