Amendment of Schedule 7B

2.—(1) Schedule 7B to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph 2(a), for “0.3%” there shall be substituted “the relevant percentage”.

(3) In paragraph 3, the words “paragraph 1 of” shall be inserted after the words “For the purposes of”.

(4) After paragraph 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

3A  For the purposes of paragraph 2(a) of this Part of this Schedule the relevant percentage, in respect of a vehicle, is, when the engine is running without load at a fast idling speed—

(a)if the vehicle is of a description specified in the Annex to the emissions publication, the percentage shown against that description of vehicle in column 3(a) of that Annex; or

(b)if the vehicle is not of such a description, 0.3%.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1078; relevant amending instrument are S.I. 1995/2210, S.I. 1996/2085 and S.I. 2001/1825.