
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motorcycles (Sound Level Measurement Certificates) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 21st October 1988.
2 
The Motorcycles (Sound Level Measurement Certificates) Regulations 1980 are hereby amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 
In regulation 2(1) —
(a) the definition of “an affirmative sound level measurement certificate” and the preceding word “and” shall be omitted, and
(b) in the definition of “the Council Directive” there shall be inserted after the words “23rd November 1978” the words “as amended by Council Directive 87/56/EEC of 18th December 1986”.
4 
In regulation 4(1) for the words “specifying, in particular, whether or not” there shall be substituted the words “stating that”.
5 
In regulations 4(2) to (4), 5(1), 7(1)(a), 8(1) and 9(3)(b) for the words “an affirmative sound level certificate” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “a sound level measurement certificate”.
6 
In the form specified in Schedule 2:—
(a) in the heading, after “23rd November 1978” there shall be inserted “as amended by Council Directive 87/56/EEC of 18th December 1986”;
(b) for paragraph 6 there shall be substituted —“
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The type of motorcycle conforms with the requirements of Council Directive 78/1015/EEC as amended by Council Directive 87/56/EEC.”;
(c) at the end of footnote (3), there shall be added “as amended by Directive 87/56/EEC”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
21st September 1988