PART 5VALIDITY OF APPROVALS AND END-OF SERIES VEHICLES
End-of-series vehicles for national small series type approval32
1
This regulation applies to a national small series type approval if the approval authority is satisfied that it is going to cease to be valid by virtue of regulation 30(1)(a).
2
The approval authority may, at the request of a holder of a national small series type approval to which this regulation applies, direct that a certificate of conformity issued under that approval in respect of an end-of-series vehicle has effect for the purposes of Part 2 of these Regulations for the relevant period.
3
The holder of the approval must specify, in a request made under paragraph (2), the technical or economic reasons preventing that holder from complying with amended requirements applying to the vehicles in question after the type approval ceases to be valid.
4
The approval authority must—
a
decide whether or not to give a direction not later than 3 months after receiving the request, and
b
must, on deciding not to give a direction, give notice of that decision to the holder of the approval without delay.
5
For the purposes of paragraph (2)—
a
an “end-of-series vehicle” is a vehicle in relation to which the conditions in paragraph (6) are satisfied;
b
the “relevant period” is—
i
in the case of a complete vehicle, the period of 12 months commencing on the date on which the EC type approval ceases to be valid, and
ii
in the case of an incomplete or a completed vehicle, the period of 18 months commencing on that date.
6
The conditions are that—
a
the vehicle is manufactured in conformity with a valid national small series type approval,
b
that type approval later ceases to be valid by virtue of regulation 30(1)(a), and
c
the national small series certificate of conformity issued in respect of the vehicle bears a date not less than 3 months earlier than the date on which the type approval ceases to be valid.