European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.
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paragraphs: The European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No.157 of 2009 ) are amended—
(a) by substituting for Regulation 7 the following:
“7.(1) Notwithstanding Regulations 4 and 5, the RSA may, upon the application of a manufacturer or distributor in respect of an end-of-series vehicle, grant an exemption whereby the certificate of conformity that is issued for the relevant vehicle is acceptable for the purpose of making a declaration for registration for a period of 12 months from the date that that certificate ceases to be in force in the case of a complete vehicle and for a period of 18 months from the date that that certificate ceases to be in force for a completed vehicle. Subject to compliance with all other requirements for the registration of vehicles and their entry into service, such a vehicle may then be registered and enter into service.
(2) The maximum number of vehicles for which the RSA may grant exemptions under paragraph (1) shall be the number of vehicles of any one type for which a valid certificate of conformity was issued on or after the date of manufacture and which remained valid for at least 3 months after its date of issue but subsequently lost its validity because an approval certificate in respect of a matter specified in Regulation 6(3) or a requirement in Regulation 6(4) ceased to be in force or, otherwise, new technical requirements against which the vehicle has not been approved have entered into force.
(3) This Regulation applies only to vehicles which:
(a) were in the territory of the European Union on the day an approval certificate in respect of a matter specified in Regulation 6(3) or a requirement in Regulation 6(4) ceased to be in force, and
(b) were accompanied by the certificate of conformity which was valid at the time of issue but subsequently ceased to be valid solely because an approval certificate in respect of a matter specified in Regulation 6(3) or a requirement in Regulation 6(4) ceased to be in force or, otherwise, new technical requirements against which the vehicle has not been approved have entered into force.
(4) An application for an exemption under this Regulation must be made in writing to the RSA by the manufacturer or the distributor of the vehicle and contain:
(a) details of either or both the technical reasons and the economic reasons for the making of the application,
(b) details of the vehicle type to which the application relates, and
(c) the VIN of the vehicle for which the exemption is sought.
(5) An application under paragraph (4) shall be accompanied by the certificate of type-approval which is no longer valid.
(6) The RSA may request an applicant for an exemption under this Regulation to submit such other information or documents as the RSA may require to consider an application and the applicant shall comply with any such request.
(7) Upon request by the RSA for the purposes of this Regulation, the Approval Authority shall verify to the RSA that the authority has granted any particular approval.”,