S.I. No. 629/2007 - Road Traffic (Components and Separate Technical Units) (Two and Three Wheel Motor Vehicle) Regulations 2007
ROAD TRAFFIC (COMPONENTS AND SEPARATE TECHNICAL UNITS) (TWO AND THREE WHEEL MOTOR VEHICLE) REGULATIONS 2007 | ||
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | ||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 14th September, 2007. | ||
I, NOEL DEMPSEY, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 (No. 24 of 1961), the National Roads and Road Traffic (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 298 of 2002 ) (as adapted by the Public Enterprise (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 305 of 2002 )) and section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 2006 (No. 23 of 2006), and for the purpose of giving further effect to Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 1 , as last amended by Commission Directive 2006/120/EC of 27 November 2006 2 , hereby make the following regulations: | ||
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Components and Separate Technical Units) (Two and Three Wheel Motor Vehicle) Regulations 2007. | ||
2. (1) In these Regulations- | ||
“component” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 2(6) of the Directive; | ||
“Directive” means Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 20021, as last amended by Commission Directive 2006/120/EC of 27 November 20062; | ||
“separate Directives” mean the Directives listed in Annex 1 to the Directive, as appropriate, taking account of the scope and latest amendment to each such Directive; | ||
“separate technical unit” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 2(5) of the Directive. | ||
(2) A word or expression which is used in these Regulations and which is also used in the Directive or a separate Directive has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Directive or relevant separate Directive, as the case may be. | ||
3. Where a new component or a new separate technical unit is placed on the market, sold or intended to be fitted on a two or three wheel motor vehicle that has been type-approved in accordance with the Directive, such component or separate technical unit shall, if so required by the Directive or a separate Directive at the time of fitment to such vehicle, conform to a type which has been type-approved, bear any relevant type-approval mark and be fitted in accordance with the requirements of the Directive or relevant separate Directive. | ||
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, | ||
5 September 2007 | ||
NOEL DEMPSEY | ||
Minister for Transport. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) | ||
The purpose of these Regulations is to transpose into Irish law provisions relating to the placing on the market, sale or use of new components or new separate technical units of | ||
a.Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 (as amended and updated) relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles and repealing Council Directive 92/61/EEC, and | ||
b.a number of related Directives (known as separate Directives) which lay down the harmonised technical requirements applicable to individual parts and characteristics of two or three wheel motor vehicles. | ||
A list of the separate Directives and details of the new components or new separate technical units to which they relate appears at Annex I of Directive 2002/24/EC (as amended and updated). | ||
