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The insurance company insures the car it is. You have to tell them it is modified and what you have done. If they have an issue with it they will probably insist on an engineer's report and insure a risk accordingly. The powers that be should not be in a position to ban something just because it has not acheived a beaurocratic level. I am proud to say that Britain's standing in the world of performance cars is one of the highest (see our standing in F1) and that all stems from people having the ability to try out innovations without the need to satisfy the cost and reams of paperwork necessary for type approval. The vast majority of our road going competition cars have non-type approval. It would be a sad day if we had a one size fits all.
Even your system of type approval doesn't ensure safety as it cannot cater for all permutations of components - all it does is stiffle progress.
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