Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 30th October 1989.

Preliminary

2.—(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2) shall be further amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that —

(a)it is requisite that the provisions of regulations 3 and 4 shall apply as from 30 October 1989 to vehicles registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(3) before the expiration of one year from the making of these Regulations; and

(b)notwithstanding that the said provisions will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.

Amendments to regulation 51 (sideguards)

3.  At the end of regulation 51, there shall be added the following paragraph —

“(9) Instead of complying with the foregoing provisions of this regulation a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 89/297(4).”.

Amendments to Schedule 2

4.  In Table I in Schedule 2, after item 52 there shall be added the following item –

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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

Regulation 51 of the 1986 Regulations sets out requirements concerning the fitting of sideguards to certain vehicles. The regulation is amended so that a vehicle that complies with Council Directive 89/297/EEC of 13th April 1989 (OJ No. L124, 5.5.89, p.1) does not have to comply with the existing requirements.

Copies of the Directive can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.