(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2002.
(2)In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.
2Amendment of regulation 79 (plates for goods vehicles and buses)#
(1)Regulation 79 of the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2)At the beginning of paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (8),”.
(3)After paragraph (7) there shall be inserted–“8 Paragraph (7) does not apply to a vehicle which falls within paragraph (1)(a) and which is a motor vehicle first used on or after 1st November 2002.”
3Amendment to Schedule 10 (emissions from certain vehicles)#
(1)Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2)In paragraph 2(a), for “0·3%”, there shall be substituted, “the relevant percentage”.
(3)In paragraph 3 for the words “For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule” there shall be substituted the words “For the purposes of paragraph 1”.
(4)After paragraph 4 there shall be inserted—“4A For the purposes of this Part 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; orb if the vehicle is not of such a description, 0·3%.”