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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 31st December 1999.
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The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 1996 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
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In regulation 3(1)(b) after the words “paragraph 1, 1A,” there shall be inserted “1B,”.
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In regulation 5(1)(c) after the words “paragraph 1, 1A,” there shall be inserted “1B,”.
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In regulation 12(2) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—“
(bb) the letter “S” if the certificate is being issued on the basis that the vehicle meets the requirements of paragraph 1B of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;”.
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(1) Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 1—
(a) paragraph (1)(b) shall be omitted; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (6) the words “; and “the five year period”” to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.
(3) After paragraph 1A there shall be inserted—“
1B 
A vehicle satisfies the requirements of this paragraph if—
(a) it is a vehicle to which the Secretary of State is required by regulation 8 to assign a vehicle identification number; and
(b) it is not a vehicle which satisfies the requirements of paragraph 1A, 2, 3 or 4.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
3rd December 1999