ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (MOTOR VEHICLE NOISE) REGULATIONS, 1987ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (MOTOR VEHICLE NOISE) REGULATIONS,1987PU(A) 244/1987In exercise of the powersconferred by sections 21, 45 and 51 of the Environmental Quality Act, 1974, theMinister, after consultation with the Environmental Quality Council, makes thefollowing regulations:1. Citationand commencement.TheseRegulations may be cited as the Environmental Quality (Motor Vehicle Noise)Regulations, 1987 and shall come into force on the16th July 1987.2. Interpretation.Inthese Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —"authorized officer" means an officer appointed under section 3 of the Act or any other officer towhom the Director General has delegated his power under section 49 of the Act;"dB (A)" means Decibel-A-weighted, being a unit of measurement of sound level obtainedwhen using a sound level meter corrected to the "A" weighted scaleusing a reference pressure of 20 micropascals;&quo...