
PART I
1 
These Regulations shall come into operation on 11th August 1986,
and may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

2 
The Regulations specified in Schedule 1
are hereby revoked.
3 

(1) In these Regulations,
unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) any reference
to a numbered regulation or a numbered Schedule is a reference to the regulation
or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations,
(b) any reference
to a numbered or lettered paragraph or sub-paragraph is a reference to the
paragraph or sub-paragraph bearing that number or letter in the regulation
or Schedule or (in the case of a sub-paragraph) paragraph in which the reference
occurs, and
(c) any reference
to a Table, or to a numbered Table, is a reference to the Table, or to the
Table bearing that number, in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference
occurs.
(2) In these Regulations,
unless the context otherwise requires, the expressions specified in column
1 of the Table have the meaning, or are to be interpreted in accordance with
the provisions, specified for them in column 2 of the Table.

TABLE(regulation 3(2))

1 2
Expression Meaning

The 1971 Act The Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971.

The 1972 Act The Road Traffic Act 1972.

The 1981 Act The Public Passenger Vehicles Act
1981.
The 1984 Act The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
.

The Approval Marks Regulations The Motor Vehicles (Designation of
Approval Marks) Regulations 1979.
The Lighting Regulations The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations
1984.
The Plating and Testing Regulations The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing)
Regulations 1982.
The Type Approval Regulations The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980.
The Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations
 The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations 1984
.
The Type Approval for Goods Vehicles
Regulations The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval for Goods Vehicles)
(Great Britain) Regulations 1982.
The Type Approval for Agricultural Vehicles
Regulations The Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor
Components (Type Approval) Regulations 1979.

The Act of Accession the Treaty concerning the Accession of the Kingdom
of Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland to the European Economic Community and the European
Atomic Energy Community
agricultural motor vehicle a motor vehicle which is constructed or adapted
for use off roads for the purpose of agriculture, horticulture or forestry
and which is primarily used for one or more of those purposes, not being a
dual-purpose vehicle.
agricultural
trailer a trailer which is constructed
or adapted for the purpose of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and which
is only used for one or more of those purposes, not being an agricultural
trailed appliance.
agricultural
trailed appliance a trailer—
(a) which is an implement constructed or
adapted—
(i) for use off roads for the purpose of
agriculture, horticulture or forestry and which is only used for one or more
of those purposes, and
(ii) so that, save in the case of an appliance
manufactured before 1st December 1985, or a towed roller, its maximum gross
weight is not more than twice its unladen weight; but
(b) which is not—
(i) a vehicle which is used primarily as
living accommodation by one or more persons, and which carries no goods or
burden except those needed by such one or more persons for the purpose of
their residence in the vehicle; or
(ii) an agricultural, horticultural or forestry
implement rigidly but not permanently mounted on any vehicle whether or not
any of the weight of the implement is supported by one or more of its own
wheels; so however that such an implement is an agricultural trailed appliance
if
 —part of the weight of the implement is supported by
one or more of its own wheels, and
 —the longitudinal axis of the greater part of the implement
is capable of articulating in the horizontal plane in relation to the longitudinal
axis of the rear portion of the vehicle on which it is mounted.
agricultural trailed
appliance conveyor an agricultural trailer
which—(a)
has an unladen weight which does not exceed 510 kg;(b) is clearly and indelibly marked with its unladen
weight;(c) has a
pneumatic tyre fitted to each one of its wheels;(d) is designed and constructed for the purpose of
conveying one agricultural trailed appliance or one agricultural, horticultural
or forestry implement.
articulated
bus a bus so constructed that—
(a) it can be divided
into two parts, both of which are vehicles and one of which is a motor vehicle,
but cannot be so divided without the use of facilities normally available
only at a workshop; and(b)
 passengers carried by it can at all times pass from either part
to the other.
articulated
vehicle a heavy motor car or motor car,
not being an articulated bus, with a trailer so attached that part of the
trailer is superimposed on the drawing vehicle and, when the trailer is uniformly
loaded, not less than 20% of the weight of its load is borne by the drawing
vehicle.
axle any reference to the number of axles of a vehicle
is to be interpreted in accordance with paragraph (8).

axle weight in relation to each axle of a vehicle, the sum of the weights
transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of that axle, having regard
to the provisions of paragraph (8).

braking efficiency the maximum braking force capable of being developed
by the brakes of a vehicle, expressed as a percentage of the weight of the
vehicle including any persons or load carried in the vehicle.
braking system is to be interpreted in accordance with paragraph (6).
bus a motor
vehicle which is constructed or adapted to carry more than eight seated passengers
in addition to the driver.

cc cubic centimetre(s).
close-coupled 
in relation to wheels on the same side of a trailer, fitted so that at all
times while the trailer is in motion they remain parallel to the longitudinal
axis of the trailer, and that the distance between the centres of their respective
areas of contract with the road surface does not exceed 1 m.
closely-spaced 
(i) in the case of two axles, that they are spaced at a distance apart of
not more than 2.5 m and not less than 1.02 m; and(ii)
in the case of three axles, that the outermost axles are spaced at a distance
apart of 3.25 m or less and no one of those three axles has a plated weight
of more than 7500 kg;the said distance being obtained
as provided in paragraph (10).

cm centimetre(s).

cm2 square
centimetre(s).
Community Directive,
followed by a number the Directive adopted
by the Council or the Commission of the European Communities of which identifying
particulars are given in the item in column 3 of Table I in Schedule
2 in which that number appears in column 2;
where such a Directive amends a previous Directive mentioned in column 3(d)
of the Table the reference to it means that previous Directive as so amended.
Any reference to a Directive which has been amended
by the Act of Accession is a reference to the Directive as so amended.
the Community Recording Equipment Regulation
 Council Regulation (EEC) 1463/70
of 20th July 1970 on the introduction of recording
equipment in road transport, as amended by Council Regulations (EEC) 1787/73
 and 2828/77,
and as read with the Community Road Transport Rules
(Exemption) Regulations 1978 and the Community Road Transport Rules
(Exemptions) (Amendment) Regulations 1980.

composite trailer a combination of a converter dolly and a semi-trailer.

container an article of equipment, not being a motor vehicle or trailer,
having a volume of at least 8 cubic metres, constructed wholly or mostly of
metal and intended for repeated use for the carriage of goods or burden.
converter dolly a trailer which is—
(a) equipped with two or more wheels,(b) designed to enable a semi-trailer to move without
any part of its weight being directly superimposed on the drawing vehicle,
and(c) not itself
a part either of the semi-trailer or of the drawing vehicle.
Council Regulation (EEC), followed by a number
 the Regulation adopted by the Council
of the European Communities.

deck a floor or platform on which seats
are provided for the accommodation of passengers.
design weight 
in relation to the gross weight, each axle weight or the train weight of a
motor vehicle or trailer, the weight at or below which in the opinion of the
Secretary of State or of a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary
of State the vehicle could safely be driven on roads.
double-decked vehicle a vehicle having two decks one of which is wholly or partly above
the other and each of which is provided with a gangway serving seats on that
deck only.
dual-purpose vehicle
 a vehicle constructed or adapted for
the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description,
being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2040 kg, and which
either—
(i) is so constructed or adapted that the
driving power of the engine is, or by the appropriate use of the controls
of the vehicle can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or
(ii) satisfies the following conditions as
to construction, namely—
(a) the vehicle must be permanently fitted
with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel;
(b) the area of the vehicle to the rear of
the driver's seat must—
(i) be permanently fitted with at least one
row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for two or more passengers and
those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered
back-rests, attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the
vehicle; and
(ii) be lit on each side and at the rear
by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area
or aggregate area of not less than 1850 square centimetres on each side and
not less than 770 square centimetres at the rear; and
(c) the distance between the rearmost part
of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the row of transverse seats satisfying
the requirements specified in head (i) of sub-paragraph (b)
 (or, if there is more than one such row of
seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the
back-rests of the rearmost such row) must, when the seats are ready for use,
be not less than one-third of the distance between the rearmost part of the
steering wheel and the rearmost part of the floor of the vehicle.
ECE Regulation, followed by a
number the Regulation, annexed to the Agreement concerning the adoption
of uniform conditions of approval for Motor Vehicles Equipment and Parts and
reciprocal recognition thereof concluded at Geneva on 20th March 1958 as amended,
to which the United Kingdom is a party, of which identifying particulars
are given in the item in column (3)(a), (b) and (c) of Table
II in Schedule 2in which that number appears
in column (2); and where that number contains more than two digits, it refers
to that Regulation with the amendments in force at the date specified in column
(3)(d) in that item.
engine power in kilowatts (kW) the maximum net power ascertained in accordance with Community Directive 80/1269.
engineering plant (a) movable plant or
equipment being a motor vehicle or trailer specially designed and constructed
for the special purposes of engineering operations, and which cannot, owing
to the requirements of those purposes, comply with all the requirements of
these Regulations and which is not constructed primarily to carry a load other
than a load being either excavated materials raised from the ground by apparatus
on the motor vehicle or trailer or materials which the vehicle or trailer
is specially designed to treat while carried thereon; or(b) a mobile crane which does not comply in all respects
with the requirements of these Regulations.
exhaust system a complete
set of components through which the exhaust gases escape from the engine unit
of a motor vehicle including those which are necessary to limit the noise
caused by the escape of those gases.
first used is to be interpreted
in accordance with paragraph (3).

gangway the space provided for obtaining access from any entrance
to the passengers' seats or from any such seat to an exit other than an emergency
exit, but excluding a staircase and any space in front of a seat which is
required only for the use of passengers occupying that seat or a seat in the
same row of seats.
gas any fuel which is wholly gaseous at 17.5°C under
a pressure of 1.013 bar absolute.

gas-fired appliance a device carried
on a motor vehicle or trailer when in use on a road, which consumes gas and
which is neither—(a)
 a device owned or operated by or with the authority of the British
Gas Corporation for the purpose of detecting gas, nor(b) an engine for the propulsion of a motor vehicle,
nor(c) a lamp which
consumes acetylene gas.
goods
vehicle a motor vehicle or trailer constructed
or adapted for use for the carriage or haulage of goods or burden of any description.

gritting trailer a trailer which is used on a road for the purpose
of spreading grit or other matter so as to avoid or reduce the effect of ice
or snow on the road.
gross
weight (a)
in relation to a motor vehicle, the sum of the weights transmitted to the
road surface by all the wheels of the vehicle.(b) in relation to a trailer, the sum of the weights
transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of the trailer and of any
weight of the trailer imposed on the drawing vehicle.
heavy motor car 
a mechanically propelled vehicle, not being a locomotive, a motor tractor,
or a motor carry, which is constructed itself to carry a load or passengers
and the weight of which unladen exceeds 2540 kg.
indivisible load 
a load which cannot without undue expense or risk of damage be divided into
two or more loads for the purpose of conveyance on a road.
industrial tractor a tractor, not being an agricultural motor vehicle, which—
(a) has an unladen
weight not exceeding 7370 kg,
(b) is designed and used primarily for work off roads, or for work
on roads in connection only with road construction or maintenance (including
any such tractor when fitted with an implement or implements designed primarily
for use in connection with such work, whether or not any such implement is
of itself designed to carry a load), and
(c) has a maximum speed not exceeding 20 mph.
invalid carriage 
a mechanically propelled vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed
254 kg and which is specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted,
for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability
and is solely used by such a person.
kerbside weight the weight
of a vehicle when it carries—
(a) in the case of a motor vehicle, 
(i) no person; and
(ii) a full supply of fuel in its tank, an
adequate supply of other liquids incidental to its propulsion and no load
other than the loose tools and equipment with which it is normally equipped;

(b) in the case of a trailer, no person and
is otherwise unladen.
kg
 kilogram(s).
km/h kilometre(s)
per hour.
kW kilowatt(s).

living van a vehicle used primarily as
living accommodation by one or more persons, and which is not also used for
the carriage of goods or burden which are not needed by such one or more persons
for the purpose of their residence in the vehicle.
locomotive a mechanically
propelled vehicle which is not constructed itself to carry a load other than
the following articles, that is to say, water, fuel, accumulators and other
equipment used for the purpose of propulsion, loose tools and loose equipment,
and the weight of which unladen exceeds 7370 kg.
longitudinal plane 
a vertical plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of a vehicle.
m 
metre(s).
m2
 square metre(s).
m3 cubic metre(s).
maximum gross weight (a) in the case of a vehicle equipped with a Ministry
plate in accordance with regulation 70,
the design gross weight shown in column (3) of that plate or, if no such weight
is shown, the gross weight shown in column (2) of that plate;(b) in the case of a vehicle
not equipped with a Ministry plate, but which is equipped with a plate in
accordance with regulation 66,
the maximum gross weight shown on the plate in respect of item 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 8
in the case of a motor vehicle and item 6 of Part II of Schedule
8 in the case of a trailer;(c) in any other case, the weight which the vehicle
is designed or adapted not to exceed when the vehicle is travelling on a road.

maximum speed the speed which a vehicle is incapable, by reason
of its construction, of exceeding on the level under its own power when fully
laden.
minibus a motor vehicle which is constructed or adapted
to carry more than 8 but not more than 16 seated passengers in addition to
the driver.
Ministry plate
 a plate issued by the Secretary of State
for a goods vehicle following the issue or amendment of a plating certificate
and in the form in, and containing the particulars required by, Schedule 10, the said particulars
being those shown in the plating certificate for the vehicle.
mm 
millimetre(s).
motor ambulance
 a motor vehicle which is specially designed
and constructed (and not merely adapted) for carrying, as equipment permanently
fixed to the vehicle, equipment used for medical, dental, or other health
purposes and is used primarily for the carriage of persons suffering from
illness, injury or disability.

motor car a mechanically propelled vehicle,
not being a motor tractor, a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, which is
constructed itself to carry a load or passengers and the weight of which unladen—
(a) if it is constructed
solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects and is adapted to
carry not more than seven passengers exclusive of the driver does not exceed
3050 kg;(b) if it
is constructed for use for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description,
does not exceed 3050 kg;(c)
 does not exceed 2540 kg in a case falling within neither of the
foregoing paragraphs.
motor
cycle a mechanically propelled vehicle,
not being an invalid carriage, having less than four wheels and the weight
of which unladen does not exceed 410 kg.
motor tractor a mechanically
propelled vehicle which is not constructed itself to carry a load, other than
the following articles, that is to say, water, fuel, accumulators and other
equipment used for the purpose of propulsion, loose tools and loose equipment,
and the weight of which unladen does not exceed 7370 kg.
motor vehicle 
a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads.
mph 
mile(s) per hour.
N/mm
2 newton(s) per square
millimetre.
overall height
 the vertical distance between the ground
and the point on the vehicle which is furthest from the ground, calculated
when—(a) the
tyres of the vehicle are suitably inflated for the use to which it is being
put;(b) the vehicle
is at its unladen weight; and
(c) the surface of the ground under the vehicle is reasonably flat;
but, in the case of a trolley bus, exclusive of the
power collection equipment mounted on the roof of the vehicle.
overall length in relation to a vehicle, the distance between transverse planes
passing through the extreme forward and rearward projecting points of the
vehicle inclusive of all parts of the vehicle, of any receptacle which is
of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough for repeated use, and
any fitting on, or attached to, the vehicle except—
(i) for all purposes— 
(a) any driving mirror;
(b) any expanding or extensible contrivance
forming part of a turntable fire escape fixed to a vehicle;
(c) any snow-plough fixed in front of a vehicle;

(d) any receptacle specially designed to
hold and keep secure a seal issued for the purposes of customs clearance;

(e) any tailboard which is let down while
the vehicle is stationary in order to facilitate its loading or unloading;

(f) any tailboard which is let down in order
to facilitate the carriage of, but which is not essential for the support
of, loads which are in themselves so long as to extend at least as far as
the tailboard when upright;
(g) any fitting attached to a part of, or
to a receptacle on, a vehicle which does not increase the carrying capacity
of the part or receptacle but which enables it to be 
 —transferred from a road vehicle to a railway vehicle
or from a railway vehicle to a road vehicle,
 —secured to a railway vehicle by a locking device, and

 —carried on a railway vehicle by the use of stanchions:

(h) any plate, whether rigid or movable,
fitted to a trailer constructed for the purpose of carrying other vehicles
and designed to bridge the gap between that trailer and a motor vehicle constructed
for that purpose and to which the trailer is attached so that, while the trailer
is attached to the motor vehicle, vehicles which are to be carried by the
motor vehicle may be moved from the trailer to the motor vehicle before a
journey begins, and vehicles which have been carried on the motor vehicle
may be moved from it to the trailer after a journey ends;
(i) any sheeting or other readily flexible
means of covering or securing a load;
(j) any receptacle with an external length,
measured parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, not exceeding 2.5
m;
(k) any empty receptacle which itself forms
a load;
(l) any receptacle which contains an indivisible
load of exceptional length;
(m) any receptacle manufactured before 30th
October 1985, not being a maritime container (namely a container designed
primarily for carriage on sea transport without an accompanying road vehicle);
or
(n) any special appliance or apparatus as
described in regulation 81(c)
which does not itself increase the carrying capacity of the vehicle;
(ii) for the purposes of regulation 7— 
(a) any part of a trailer (not being in the
case of an agricultural trailed appliance a drawbar or other thing with which
it is equipped for the purpose of being towed) designed primarily for use
as a means of attaching it to another vehicle and any fitting designed for
use in connection with any such part;
(b) the thickness of any front or rear wall
on a semi-trailer and of any part forward of such front wall or rearward of
such rear wall which does not increase the vehicle's load-carrying space.

overall width
 the distance between longitudinal planes
passing through the extreme lateral projecting points of the vehicle inclusive
of all parts of the vehicle, of any receptacle which is of permanent character
and accordingly strong enough for repeated use, and any fitting on, or attached
to, the vehicle except—
(a) any driving mirror;
(b) any snow-plough fixed in front of the
vehicle;
(c) so much of the distortion of any tyre
as is caused by the weight of the vehicle;
(d) any receptacle specially designed to
hold and keep secure a seal issued for the purposes of customs clearance;

(e) any lamp or reflector fitted to the vehicle
in accordance with the Lighting Regulations;
(f) any sideboard which is let down while
the vehicle is stationary in order to facilitate its loading or unloading;

(g) any fitting attached to part of, or to
a receptacle on, a vehicle which does not increase the carrying capacity of
the part or receptacle but which enables it to be 
 —transferred from a road vehicle to a railway vehicle
or from a railway vehicle to a road vehicle;
 —secured to a railway vehicle by a locking device; and

 —carried on a railway vehicle by the use of stanchions;

(h) any sheeting or other readily flexible
means of covering or securing a load;
(i) any receptacle with an external width,
measured at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, which does
not exceed 2.5 m;
(j) any empty receptacle which itself forms
a load;
(k) any receptacle which contains an indivisible
load of exceptional width;
(l) any receptacle manufactured before 30th
October 1985, not being a maritime container (namely a container designed
primarily for carriage on sea transport without an accompanying road vehicle);
or
(m) any special appliance or apparatus as
described in regulation 81(c)
which does not itself increase the carrying capacity of the vehicle.
overhang the distance measured horizontally and parallel to the longitudinal
axis of a vehicle between two transverse planes passing through the following
two points—
(a) the rearmost point of the vehicle exclusive
of— 
(i) any expanding or extensible contrivance
forming part of a turntable fire escape fixed to a vehicle;
(ii) in the case of a motor car constructed
solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects and adapted to carry
not more than eight passengers exclusive of the driver, any luggage carrier
fitted to the vehicle; and
(b) 
(i) in the case of a motor vehicle having
not more than three axles of which only one is not a steering axle, the centre
point of that axle;
(ii) in the case of a motor vehicle having
three axles of which the front axle is the only steering axle and of a motor
vehicle having four axles of which the two foremost are the only steering
axles, a point 110 mm behind the centre of a straight line joining the centre
points of the two rearmost axles; and
(iii) in any other case a point situated
on the longitudinal axis of the vehicle and such that a line drawn from it
at right angles to that axis will pass through the centre of the minimum turning
circle of the vehicle.
passenger vehicle a vehicle
constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects.
pedestrian-controlled vehicle a motor vehicle which is controlled by a pedestrian
and not constructed or adapted for use or used for the carriage of a driver
or passenger.
pneumatic tyre
 a tyre which—(a) is provided with, or together with the wheel
upon which it is mounted forms, a continuous closed chamber inflated to a
pressure substantially exceeding atmospheric pressure when the tyre is in
the condition in which it is normally used, but is not subjected to any load;
(b) is capable of
being inflated and deflated without removal from the wheel or vehicle; and
(c) is such that,
when it is deflated and is subjected to a normal load, the sides of the tyre
collapse.
public works vehicle
 a mechanically propelled vehicle which
is specially designed for use on a road by or on behalf of any statutory undertaking
(as defined in section 262(13)
of the Local
Government Act 1972), highway authority, local
authority, water authority, the Post Office, British Telecommunications plc
or any police force for the purpose of works which such undertaking, authority
or other body has a duty or a power to carry out, but excluding the carriage
of persons other than crew or of goods other than goods needed for the works
in respect of which the vehicle is being used.
recut pneumatic tyre 
a pneumatic tyre in which all or part of its original tread pattern has been
cut deeper or burnt deeper or a different tread pattern has been cut deeper
or burnt deeper than the original tread pattern.
refuse vehicle 
a vehicle designed for use and used solely in connection with street cleansing,
the collection or disposal of refuse, or the collection or disposal of the
contents of gullies or cesspools.

registered registered under any of the
following enactments—
(a) the Roads Act 1920,
(b) the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1949,
(c) the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962,
or(d) the 1971 Act
and,in relation to the date
on which a vehicle was registered, the date on which it was first registered
under any of those enactments.

relevant braking requirement a requirement
that the brakes of a motor vehicle (as assisted, where a trailer is being
drawn, by the brakes on the trailer) comply—
(i) in a case to which item 1 in Table 1 in regulation
18 applies, with the requirements specified
in regulation 18(3)
for vehicles falling in that item;(ii) in any other
case, with the requirements specified in regulation 18(3)
for vehicle classes (a) and (b) in item 2 of that Table (whatever the date
of first use of the motor vehicle and the date of manufacture of any trailer
drawn by it may be).
resilient
tyre a tyre, not being a pneumatic tyre,
which is of soft or elastic material, having regard to paragraph (5).
rigid vehicle 
a motor vehicle which is not constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated
vehicle or articulated bus.

secondary braking system a braking system
of a vehicle applied by a secondary means of operation independent of the
service braking system or by one of the sections comprised in a split braking
system.
service braking system
 the braking system of a vehicle which
is designed and constructed to have the highest braking efficiency of any
of the braking systems with which the vehicle is equipped.
semi-trailer 
a trailer which is constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated vehicle.

silencer a contrivance suitable and sufficient for reducing as far
as may be reasonable the noise caused by the escape of exhaust gases from
the engine of a motor vehicle.

single-decked vehicle a vehicle upon
which no part of a deck or gangway is vertically above another deck or gangway.

split braking system in relation to a motor vehicle, a braking system
so designed and constructed that—
(a) it comprises two independent sections of mechanism capable
of developing braking force such that, excluding the means of operation, a
failure of any part (other than a fixed member or a brake shoe anchor pin)
of one of the said sections will not cause a decrease in the braking force
capable of being developed by the other section;(b) the said two sections are operated by a means
of operation which is common to both sections;(c) the braking efficiency of either of the said
two sections can be readily checked.
stored energy in relation
to a braking system of a vehicle, energy (other than the muscular energy of
the driver or the mechanical energy of a spring) stored in a reservoir for
the purpose of applying the brakes under the control of the driver, either
directly or as a supplement to his muscular energy.
straddle carrier 
a motor vehicle constructed to straddle and lift its load for the purpose
of transportation.
statutory
power of removal a power conferred by
or under any enactment to remove or move a vehicle from any road or from any
part of a road.
temporary
use spare tyre a pneumatic tyre which
is designed for use on a motor vehicle only—(a) in the event of the failure of one of the tyres
normally fitted to a wheel of the vehicle, and(b) at a speed lower than that for which such normally
fitted tyres are designed.

three-wheeled motor cycle a motor cycle
having three wheels, not including a two-wheeled motor cycle with a sidecar
attached.
towing implement
 a device on wheels designed for the
purpose of enabling a motor vehicle to draw another vehicle by the attachment
of that device to that other vehicle in such a manner that part of that other
vehicle is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from the device
and some but not all of the wheels on which that other vehicle normally runs
are raised off the ground.

track-laying in relation to a vehicle,
so designed and constructed that the weight thereof is transmitted to the
road surface either by means of continuous tracks or by a combination of wheels
and continuous tracks in such circumstances that the weight transmitted to
the road surface by the tracks is not less than half the weight of the vehicle.

trailer means a vehicle drawn by a motor vehicle and is to be interpreted
in accordance with paragraphs (9)
and (11).

train weight in relation to a motor vehicle which may draw a
trailer, the maximum laden weight for the motor vehicle together with any
trailer which may be drawn by it.

transverse plane a vertical plane at
right angles to the longitudinal axis of a vehicle.
trolley bus a
bus adapted for use on roads without rails and moved by power transmitted
thereto from some external source.

unbraked trailer any trailer other than
one which, whether or not regulation 15 or 16
applies to it, is equipped with a braking system in accordance with one of
those regulations.
unladen
weight the weight of a vehicle or trailer
inclusive of the body and all parts (the heavier being taken where alternative
bodies or parts are used) which are necessary to or ordinarily used with the
vehicle or trailer when working on a road, but exclusive of the weight of
water, fuel or accumulators used for the purpose of the supply of power for
the propulsion of the vehicle or, as the case may be, of any vehicle by which
the trailer is drawn, and of loose tools and loose equipment.
vehicle in the service of a visiting
force or of a headquarters a vehicle
so described in Article 8(6)
of the Visiting
Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965
wheel 
a wheel the tyre or rim of which when the vehicle is in motion on a road is
in contact with the ground; two wheels are to be regarded as one wheel in
the circumstances specified in paragraph (7).

wheeled in relation to a vehicle, so constructed that the whole
weight of the vehicle is transmitted to the road surface by means of wheels.

Wide tyre a pneumatic tyre of which the area of contact with the road
surface is not less than 300mm in width when measured at right angles to the
longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

works trailer a trailer designed for
use in private premises and used on a road only in delivering goods from or
to such premises to or from a vehicle on a road in the immediate neighbourhood,
or in passing from one part of any such premises to another or to other private
premises in the immediate neighbourhood or in connection with road works while
at or in the immediate neighbourhood of the site of such works.
works truck a motor vehicle (other than a straddle carrier) designed for use
in private premises and used on a road only in delivering goods from or to
such premises to or from a vehicle on a road in the immediate neighbourhood,
or in passing from one part of any such premises to another or to other private
premises in the immediate neighbourhood or in connection with road works while
at or in the immediate neighbourhood of the site of such works.
(3) For the purpose of
these Regulations, the date on which a motor vehicle is first used is—

(a) in the case of
a vehicle not falling within sub-paragraph (b)
and which is registered, the date on which it was registered;
(b) in each of the
following cases—
(i) a vehicle
which is being or has been used under a trade licence as defined in section 16 of the 1971 Act (otherwise
than for the purposes of demonstration or testing or of being delivered from
premises of the manufacturer by whom it was made or of a distributor of vehicles,
or dealer in vehicles, to premises of a distributor of vehicles, dealer in
vehicles or purchaser thereof or to premises of a person obtaining possession
thereof under a hiring agreement or hire purchase agreement);
(ii) a vehicle
belonging, or which has belonged, to the Crown and which is or was used or
appropriated for use for naval, military or air force purposes;
(iii) a vehicle
belonging, or which has belonged, to a visiting force or a headquarters or
defence organisation to which in each case the Visiting Forces and International
Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965
applies;
(iv) a vehicle
which has been used on roads outside Great Britain before being imported into
Great Britain; and
(v) a vehicle
which has been used otherwise than on roads after being sold or supplied by
retail and before being registered;the date of manufacture of the vehicle.In sub-paragraph (b) (v) of
this paragraph “sold or supplied by retail”
means sold or supplied otherwise than to a person acquiring
it solely for the purpose of resale or re-supply for a valuable consideration
.
(4) The date of manufacture
of a vehicle to which the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations apply
shall be the date of manufacture described in regulation 2(4)(a)
of those Regulations.
(5) Save where otherwise
provided in these Regulations a tyre shall not be deemed to be of soft or
elastic material unless the said material is either—
(a) continuous round
the circumference of the wheel; or
(b) fitted in sections
so that so far as reasonably practicable no space is left between the ends
thereof,and is of such thickness and design as to minimise, so far as reasonably
possible, vibration when the vehicle is in motion and so constructed as to
be free from any defect which might in any way cause damage to the surface
of a road.
(6) For the purpose of
these Regulations a brake drum and a brake disc shall be deemed to form part
of the wheel and not of the braking system.
(7) For the purpose of
these Regulations other than regulations 26 and 27
any two wheels of a motor vehicle or trailer shall be regarded as one wheel
if the distance between the centres of the areas of contact between such wheels
and the road surface is less than 460 mm.
(8) For the purpose of
these Regulations other than regulations 26 and 27
in counting the number of axles of, and in determining the sum of the weights
transmitted to the road surface by any one axle of, a vehicle, all the wheels
of which the centres of the areas of contact with the road surface can be
included between any two transverse planes less than 1.02 m apart shall be
treated as constituting one axle.
(9) The provisions of
these Regulations relating to trailers do not apply to any part of an articulated
bus.
(10) For the purpose
of regulations 51, 76 and 77 and Schedule 11
and of the definition in paragraph (2) of the expression “closely-spaced”,
the distance between any two axles shall be obtained by measuring the shortest
distance between the line joining the centres of the areas of contact with
the road surface of the wheels of one axle and the line joining the centres
of the areas of contact with the road surface of the wheels of the other axle.

(11) For the purpose
of the following provisions only, a composite trailer shall be treated as
one trailer (not being a semi-trailer or a converter dolly)—
(a) regulations 7, 76 and 83;

(b) paragraph (2) of, and items 3
and 10 in the Table in, regulation 75;

(c) item 2 in the
Table in regulation 78.

4 

(1) Save where the context
otherwise requires, these Regulations apply to both wheeled vehicles and track-laying
vehicles.
(2) Where a provision
is applied by these Regulations to a motor vehicle first used on or after
a specified date it does not apply to that vehicle if it was manufactured
at least six months before that date.
(3) Where an exemption
from, or relaxation of, a provision is applied by these Regulations to a motor
vehicle first used before a specified date it shall also apply to a motor
vehicle first used on or after that date if it was manufactured at least six
months before that date.
(4) The regulations specified
in an item in column 3 of the Table do not apply in respect of a vehicle of
a class specified in that item in column 2.

TABLE(regulation 4(4))

1 2
 3
Item Class of Vehicle 
Regulations which do not apply
1 A vehicle proceeding
to a port for export. The regulations
in Part II insofar
as they relate to construction and equipment, except regulations 16 (insofar as it
concerns parking brakes) 20, 30, 34, 37, 53 and 57(3) and (4).
Regulations 66 to 69
and 71.

2 A vehicle brought temporarily into Great Britain by a person resident
abroad, provided that the vehicle complies in every respect with the requirements
relating to motor vehicles or trailers contained in—(a) article 21 and paragraph (1) of article 22
of the Convention
on Road Traffic concluded at Geneva on 19th September 1949 and Part II (so far as it relates to direction
indicators and stop lights) and Part III of Annex 6 to that Convention;
or(b) paragraphs I, III and VIII of article 3
of the International
Convention relative to Motor Traffic concluded at Paris on 24th April 1926
 The regulations in Part II
insofar as they relate to construction and equipment except 
regulations 7, 8, 9(2), 10, 40, 53 and 57(3) and (4).Regulations 66 to 69 and 71.

3 A vehicle manufactured in Great Britain which complies with the
requirements referred to in item 2 above and contained in the Convention of
1949, or, as the case may be, 1926 referred to in that item as if the vehicle
had been brought temporarily into Great Britain, and either—(a) is exempt from car tax by
virtue of paragraph 7 and 8 of Schedule 7
to the Finance
Act 1972, or(b) has been zero rated under regulation 49 or 50 of the Value Added Tax (General) Regulations
1977. 
The regulations in Part II
insofar as they relate to construction and equipment, except 
regulations 7, 8, 9(2), 10, 40, 53 and 57(3) and (4).Regulations 66 to 69 and 71.

4 A vehicle in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters.
 The regulations in Part II insofar as they relate
to construction and equipment, except regulations 9(2), 16
(insofar as it concerns parking brakes), 21, 53, 57(3), and (4)
and 61.
Regulations 66 to 69, 71 and 75 to 79.

5 A vehicle which has been submitted for an examination under section 43 or section 54 of
the 1972 Act while it is being used on a road in connection with the carrying
out of that examination and is being so used by a person who is empowered
under that section to carry out that examination, or by a person acting under
the direction of a person so empowered. 
The regulations in Part II except regulations 57(3) and (4). Regulations 75 to 79 and 100.

6 A motor car or a motor cycle in respect of which a certificate
has been issued by the Officer in Charge of the National Collections of Road
Transport, the Science Museum, London SW7. that it was designed before 1st
January 1905 and constructed before 31st December 1905. Regulations 16
(except insofar as it applies requirements 3 and 6 in Schedule
3), 21, 37(4), 63 and 99(4).

7 
(a) A towing implement which is being drawn
by a motor vehicle while it is not attached to any vehicle except the one
drawing it if— 
(i) the towing implement is not being so
drawn during the hours of darkness, and
(ii) the vehicle by which it is being so
drawn is not driven at a speed exceeding 20 mph; or
(b) a vehicle which is being drawn by a motor
vehicle in the exercise of a statutory power of removal. The regulations in Part II
insofar as they relate to the construction and equipment of trailers, except regulation 20.
(5) Any reference to
a broken down vehicle shall include a reference to any towing implement which
is being used for the drawing of any such vehicle.
(6) The Secretary of
State is satisfied that it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 40(2) should apply,
as from the date on which these Regulations come into operation, to track-laying
vehicles registered before the expiration of one year from the making of these
Regulations; and that, notwithstanding that those provisions will then apply
to these vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.

5 
Nothing in any provision of these Regulations whereby any vehicle
or any of its parts or equipment is required to be marked with a specification
number or the registered certification trade mark of the British Standards
Institution or with an approval mark, or whereby such a marking is treated
as evidence of compliance with a standard to which the marking relates, shall
be taken to authorise any person to apply any such marking to the vehicle,
part or equipment in contravention of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968.
6 

(1) For the purpose of
any regulation which requires or permits a vehicle to comply with the requirements
of a Community Directive or an ECE Regulation, a vehicle shall be deemed so
to have complied at the date of its first use only if—
(a) one of the certificates
referred to in paragraph (2) has been issued in relation to it; or
(b) the marking referred
to in paragraph (3) has been applied; or
(c) it was, before
it was used on a road, subject to a relevant type approval requirement as
specified in paragraph (4).
(2) The certificates
mentioned in paragraph (1) are—
(a) a type approval
certificate issued by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 of the Type Approval
Regulations or of the Type Approval for Agricultural Vehicles Regulations;

(b) a certificate
of conformity issued by the manufacturer of the vehicle under regulation 6 of either of those
Regulations; or
(c) a certificate
issued under a provision of the law of any member state of the European Economic
Community which corresponds to the said regulations 5 or 6,being in each case a certificate issued by reason of the vehicle's
conforming to the requirements of the Community Directive in question.
(3) The marking mentioned
in paragraph (1) is a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Approval Marks
Regulations, being in each case a mark shown in column 2 of an item in Schedule 2 to those Regulations
which refers, in column 5, to the ECE Regulation in question, applied as indicated
in column 4 in that item.
(4) A relevant type approval
requirement is a requirement of the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations
or the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations which appears—
(a) in column 4 of Table I in Schedule 2
in the item in which the Community Directive in question appears in column
3, or
(b) in column 4 of Table II in Schedule 2
in the item in which the ECE Regulation in question appears in column3.
PART II
A
7 

(1) Subject
to paragraphs (2) to (6), the overall length of a vehicle or combination of
vehicles of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not
exceed the maximum length specified in that item in column 3 of the Table,
the overall length in the case of a combination of vehicles being calculated
in accordance with regulation 81(g) and (h).


TABLE(regulation 7(1))

1 
2 3
Item Class of vehicle Maximum length (metres)
 Vehicle Combinations
1 
A motor vehicle drawing one trailer not being a semi-trailer. 18
2 An articulated bus.
 18
3 An articulated vehicle.
 15.5
 
Motor vehicles

4 A wheeled motor vehicle. 12

5 A track-laying motor vehicle. 9.2
 Trailers
6 
An agricultural trailed appliance manufactured on or after 1st December 1985.
 15
7 A semi-trailer
manufactured on or after 1st May 1983. 12.2
8 A trailer with at least 4 wheels which is—
(a) drawn by a goods
vehicle being a motor vehicle having a maximum gross weight exceeding 3500
kg; or(b) an agricultural
trailer. 12
9 
Any other trailer not being an agricultural trailed appliance or a semi-trailer.
 7
(2) In the
case of a motor vehicle drawing one trailer where—
(a) the
motor vehicle is a showman's vehicle as defined in paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the
1971 Act; and
(b) the
trailer is used primarily as living accommodation by one or more persons and
is not also used for the carriage of goods or burden which are not needed
for the purpose of such residence in the vehicle,item 1 in the Table applies with the substitution of 22 m for 18
m.
(3) The provisions
of paragraph (1) do not apply to—
(a) a vehicle
combination or trailer which is constructed and normally used for the conveyance
of indivisible loads of exceptional length;
(b) a wheeled
semi-trailer which is constructed and normally used for the purpose of carrying
at least two other wheeled vehicles;
(c) a broken
down vehicle which is being drawn by a motor vehicle in consequence of a breakdown;
or
(d) a trailer
being drying or mixing plant designed for the production of asphalt or of
bituminous or tar macadam and used mainly for the construction, repair or
maintenance of roads, or a road planing machine so used.
(4) Where a
motor vehicle is drawing—
(a) two
trailers, then only one of those trailers may exceed an overall length of
7 m;
(b) three
trailers, then none of those trailers shall exceed an overall length of 7
m.
(5) Where a
motor vehicle is drawing—
(a) two
or more trailers; or
(b) one
trailer constructed and normally used for the conveyance of indivisible loads
of exceptional length—then—
(i) the
overall length of that motor vehicle shall not exceed 9.2 m; and
(ii) 
the overall length of the combination of vehicles, calculated in accordance
with regulation 81(g) and (h),
shall not exceed 25.9 m, unless the conditions specified in 
paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 12 have been
complied with.
(6) Item 7
in the Table does not apply to a semi-trailer which is normally used on international
journeys any part of which takes place outside the United Kingdom.
8 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), the overall width of a vehicle of a class specified
in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the maximum width specified
in column 3 in that item.

TABLE(regulation 8(1))

1 
2 3
Item Class of vehicle Maximum width (metres)
1 A locomotive, other than an agricultural motor vehicle.
 2.75
2 A refrigerated
vehicle 2.58
3 Any other motor
vehicle. 2.5
4 A trailer drawn
by a motor vehicle having a maximum gross weight (determined as provided in Part I of Schedule 8 to these
Regulations) exceeding 3500 kg. 2.5
5 An agricultural trailer. 2.5
6 An agricultural trailed appliance. 2.5
7 Any other trailer drawn by a vehicle other than
a motor cycle. 2.3
8 
A trailer drawn by a motor cycle. 1.5

(2) Paragraph
(1) does not apply to a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence
of the breakdown.
(3) No person
shall use or cause or permit to be used on a road a wheeled agricultural motor
vehicle drawing a wheeled trailer if, when the longitudinal axes of the vehicles
are parallel but in different vertical planes, the overall width of the two
vehicles, measured as if they were one vehicle, exceeds 2.5 metres.
(4) In this
regulation “refrigerated vehicle” means any vehicle which is specially designed for the carriage of goods
at low temperature and of which the thickness of each of the side walls, inclusive
of insulation, is at least 45 mm.
9 

(1) The overall
height of a bus shall not exceed 4.57 m.
(2) Save as
provided in paragraph (3), no person shall use or cause or permit to be used
on a road any semi-trailer if—
(a) any
part of the structure of the vehicle is more than 4.2 m from the ground when
the vehicle is on level ground; and
(b) the
total laden weight of the semi-trailer and the vehicle by which it is drawn
exceeds 32,520 kg.
(3) For the
purpose of paragraph (2) the structure of a vehicle includes any detachable
structure attached to the vehicle for the purpose of containing any load,
but does not include any load which is not a detachable structure or any sheeting
or other readily flexible means of covering or securing a load.The provisions of paragraph (2) do not apply in respect of any
vehicle while it is being loaded or unloaded.
10 

(1) This regulation
applies to every motor vehicle which is—
(a) constructed
or adapted so as to be capable of hoisting and carrying a skip;
(b) carrying
a container;
(c) drawing
a trailer or semi-trailer carrying a container;
(d) engineering
plant;
(e) carrying
engineering equipment; or
(f) drawing
a trailer or semi-trailer carrying engineering equipment.
(2) No person
shall use or cause or permit to be used on a road a vehicle to which this
regulation applies if the overall travelling height exceeds 3.66 m unless
there is carried in the vehicle in the manner specified in paragraph (3) a
notice clearly indicating in feet and inches and in figures not less than
40 mm tall, the overall travelling height.
(3) The notice
referred to in paragraph (2) shall be attached to the vehicle in such a manner
that it can be read by the driver when in the driving position.
(4) In this
regulation—
 “engineering equipment”
 means engineering plant and any other
plant or equipment designed and constructed for the purpose of engineering
operations;
 “overall travelling height”
 means not less than and not above 25
mm more than the distance between the ground and the point on the motor vehicle,
or on any trailer drawn by it, or on any load which is being carried by or
any equipment which is fitted to the said motor vehicle or trailer, which
is farthest from the ground, and for the purpose of determining the overall
travelling height— 
(a) the tyres of the motor vehicle and of any trailer
which it is drawing shall be suitably inflated for the use to which the vehicle
or combination of vehicles is being put; and
(b) the surface under the motor vehicle and any
trailer which it is drawing and any load which is being carried on and any
equipment which is fitted to any part of the said vehicle or combination of
vehicles and which projects beyond any part of the said vehicle or combination
of vehicles shall be reasonably flat; and
(c) any equipment which is fitted to the motor
vehicle or any trailer which it is drawing shall be stowed in the position
in which it is to proceed on the road;
 “skip” means an article of equipment designed and constructed to be carried on
a road vehicle and to be placed on a road or other land for the storage of
materials, or for the removal and disposal of rubble, waste, household or
other rubbish or earth.
11 

(1) The overhang
of a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table
shall not, subject to any exemption specified in that item in column 4, exceed
the distance specified in that item in column 3.

TABLE(regulation 11(1))

1
 2 3 4
Item
 Class of vehicle Maximum overhang Exemptions
1 
Motor tractor 1.83 m. (a) a track-laying vehicle
(b) an agricultural
motor vehicle
2 Heavy motor car and motor car 60% of the distance between the transverse plane which passes
through the centre or centres of the foremost wheel or wheels and the transverse
plane which passes through the foremost point from which the overhang is to
be measured as provided in regulation 3(2).
 
(a) a bus
(b) a refuse vehicle
(c) a works truck
(d) a track-laying vehicle
(e) an agricultural motor vehicle
(f) a motor car which is an ambulance
(g) a vehicle designed to dispose of its
load to the rear, if the overhang does not exceed 1.15 m
(h) a vehicle first used before 2nd January
1933
(i) a vehicle first used before 1st January
1966 if— 
(i) the distance between the centres of the
rearmost and foremost axles does not exceed 2.29 m, and
(ii) the distance specified in column 3 is
not exceeded by more than 76 mm
(j) heating plant on a vehicle designed and
mainly used to heat the surface of a road or other similar surface in the
process of construction, repair or maintenance shall be disregarded.
(2) In the
case of an agricultural motor vehicle the distance measured horizontally and
parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rear portion of the vehicle between
the transverse planes passing through the rearmost point of the vehicle and
through the centre of the rear or the rearmost axle shall not exceed 3 m.

12 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), a wheeled trailer which is—
(a) a
goods vehicle; and
(b) manufactured
on or after 1st April 1984,shall have a minimum ground clearance of not less than 160 mm if
the trailer has an axle interspace of more than 6 m but less than 11.5 m,
and a minimum ground clearance of not less than 190 mm if the trailer has
an axle interspace of 11.5 m or more.
(2) Paragraph
(1) shall not apply in the case of a trailer—
(a) which
is fitted with a suspension system with which, by the operation of a control,
the trailer may be lowered or raised, while that system is being operated
to enable the trailer to pass under a bridge or other obstruction over a road
provided that at such times the system is operated so that no part of the
trailer (excluding any wheel) touches the ground or is likely to do so; or

(b) while
it is being loaded or unloaded.
(3) In this
regulation—
 “axle interspace”
means— 
(a) in the case of a semi-trailer, the distance
between the point of support of the semi-trailer at its forward end and, if
it has only one axle, the centre of that axle or, if it has more than one
axle, the point halfway between the centres of the foremost and rearmost of
those axles; and
(b) in the case of any other trailer, the distance between
the centre of its front axle or, if it has more than one axle at the front,
the point halfway between the centres of the foremost and rearmost of those
axles, and the centre of its rear axle or, if it has more than one axle at
the rear, the point halfway between the centre of the foremost and rearmost
of those axles; and
 “ground clearance”
means the shortest distance between the ground and the
lowest part of that portion of the trailer (excluding any part of a suspension,
steering or braking system attached to any axle, any wheel and any air skirt)
which lies within the area formed by the overall width of the trailer and
the middle 70% of the axle interspace, such distance being ascertained when
the trailer— 
(a) is fitted with suitable tyres which are inflated
to a pressure recommended by the manufacturer, and
(b) is reasonably horizontal and standing on ground which
is reasonably flat.
13 

(1) This regulation
applies to a bus first used on or after 1st April 1982.
(2) Every
vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be able to move on either lock
so that no part of it projects outside the area contained between concentric
circles with radii of 12 m and 5.3 m.
(3) When a
vehicle to which this regulation applies moves forward from rest, on either
lock, so that its outermost point describes a circle of 12 m radius, no part
of the vehicle shall project beyond the longitudinal plane which, at the beginning
of the manoeuvre, defines the overall width of the vehicle on the side opposite
to the direction in which it is turning by more than—
(a) 0.8
m if it is a rigid vehicle; or
(b) 1.2
m if it is an articulated bus.
(4) For the
purpose of paragraph (3) the two rigid portions of an articulated bus shall
be in line at the beginning of the manoeuvre.
14 

(1) This regulation
applies to every articulated bus first used on or after 1st April 1982.
(2) The connecting
section of the two parts of every articulated bus to which this regulation
applies shall be constructed so as to comply with the provisions relating
to such a section specified in paragraph 5.9
in ECE Regulation
36 as regards vehicles within the scope of
that Regulation.
(3) Every
articulated bus to which this regulation applies shall be constructed so that
when the vehicle is moving in a straight line the longitudinal median planes
of its two parts coincide and form a continuous plane without any deflection.

B
15 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), the braking system of every wheeled
vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table which is
first used on or after 1st April 1983 shall comply with the construction,
fitting, and performance requirements specified in 
Annexes I, II and VII to Community Directive 79/489, and
if relevant, Annexes III, IV, V, VI
and VIII
to that Directive, in relation to the category of vehicles specified in that
item in column 3.Provided that
it shall be lawful for any vehicle of such a class which was first used before
1st April 1983 to comply with the said requirements instead of complying with regulations 16 and 17.

TABLE(regulation 15(1))

1 2
 3
Item Class
of Vehicle Vehicle Category in the Community
Directive

1 Passenger vehicles and dual-purpose
vehicles which have 3 or more wheels except—(a) dual-purpose vehicles constructed and adapted
to carry not more than 2 passengers exclusive of the driver;(b) motor-cycles with side-car attached;(c) vehicles having 3 wheels,
and not exceeding a maximum gross weight of 1000 kg, a design speed of 40
km/h and an engine capacity of 50 cc.;
(d) buses. 
M1
2 Buses having a maximum gross weight which does not
exceed 5000 kg. M2
3 
Buses having a maximum gross weight which exceeds 5000 kg. M3
4 Dual-purpose vehicles not
within item 1(a); and goods vehicles, having
a maximum gross weight which does not exceed 3500 kg, and not being motorcycles
with a sidecar attached. 
N1
 Goods vehicles with a maximum gross weight which—

5 exceeds 3500 kg but does not exceed 12,000 kg. N2
6 exceeds 12,000 kg.
 N3
 Trailers of which
the sum of the axle weights—
7 does not exceed 750
kg. O1
8 exceeds
750 kg but does not exceed 3500 kg. O2

9 exceeds 3500 kg but does not exceed
10,000 kg. O3
10 
exceeds 10,000 kg. O4
(2) The requirements
specified in paragraph (1) do not apply to—
(a) an
agricultural trailer or agricultural trailed appliance that is not, in either
case, drawn at a speed exceeding 20 mph;
(b) a
locomotive;
(c) a
motor tractor;
(d) an
agricultural motor vehicle unless it is first used after 1st June 1986 and
is driven at more than 20 mph;
(e) a
vehicle which has a maximum speed not exceeding 25 km/h;
(f) a
works trailer;
(g) a
works truck;
(h) a
public works vehicle;
(i) a
trailer designed and constructed, or adapted, to be drawn exclusively by a
vehicle to which sub-paragraph (b), (c), (e), (g) or (h) of
this paragraph applies;
(j) a
trailer mentioned in regulation 16(3)(b), (d), (e), (f) and (g);
or
(k) a
vehicle manufactured by Leyland Vehicles Limited and known as the Atlantean
Bus, if first used before 1st October 1984.
(3) The requirements
specified in paragraph (1) shall apply to the classes of vehicles specified
in the Table so that—
(a) in
items 2 and 3 the testing requirements specified in 
paragraphs 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 of Annex II to the
said Community Directive shall not apply in relation to a double-decked vehicle
first used before 1st October 1983;
(b) in
items 2 and 3 the requirements specified in paragraph 1.1.4.2 of Annex II
 to the said Community Directive shall not
apply;
(c) in
items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, in the case of vehicles constructed or adapted
for use by physically handicapped drivers, the requirement in paragraph 2.1.2.1 of Annex I to
the said Community Directive that the driver must be able to achieve the braking
action mentioned in that paragraph from his driving seat without removing
his hands from the steering control shall be modified so as to require that
the driver is able to achieve that action while one of his hands remains on
the steering control; and
(d) in
items 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 the requirement specified in paragraph 1.1.4.2 of Annex II
to the said Community Directive shall not apply to a vehicle if either—

(i) 
following a test in respect of which the fee numbered 1360C, 1361Z or 1362W,
prescribed in Schedule 1
to the Motor
Vehicles (Type Approval and Approval Marks) (Fees) Regulations 1984 has been paid, a document is issued by the Secretary of State
indicating that, at the date of manufacture of the vehicle, the type to which
it belongs complies with the requirements specified in Annex 13 to ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05; or
(ii) 
as a result of a notifiable alteration to the vehicle, within the meaning
of regulation 3
of the Plating and Testing Regulations, a fitment has been approved as complying
with the requirements mentioned in sub-paragraph (i).
(4) Instead
of complying with the preceding provisions of this regulation, a vehicle to
which this regulation applies may comply with Community Directive 79/489
or with ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05, so, however, that a vehicle
on which a notifiable alteration referred to in paragraph (3)
(d) has been carried out shall not be treated as so complying unless
the fitment installed in it has been approved as mentioned in that paragraph.

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(1) Save as
provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), this regulation applies to every vehicle
to which regulation 15
does not apply.
(2) Paragraph
(4) of this regulation does not apply to a vehicle which complies with regulation 15 by virtue of the proviso to regulation 15(1), or
which complies with Community Directive 79/489
or ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05.
(3) This regulation
does not apply to the following vehicles, except in the case of a vehicle
referred to in (a) insofar as the regulation
concerns parking brakes (requirements 16 to 18 in Schedule
3)—
(a) a
locomotive first used before 2nd January 1933, propelled by steam, and with
an engine which is capable of being reversed;
(b) a
trailer which—
(i) 
is designed for use and used for street cleansing and does not carry any load
other than its necessary gear and equipment;
(ii) 
has axle weights of which the sum does not exceed 750 kg;
(iii) 
is an agricultural trailer manufactured before 1st July 1947 drawn by a motor
tractor or an agricultural motor vehicle if the trailer—(A) 
has a laden weight not exceeding 4070 kg; and(B) 
is the only trailer being drawn; and(C) 
is drawn at a speed not exceeding 10 mph; or
(iv) 
is drawn by a motor cycle in accordance with regulation 84;

(c) an
agricultural trailed appliance;
(d) an
agricultural trailed appliance conveyor;
(e) a
broken down vehicle;
(f) before
1st October 1986—
(i) 
a trailer with an unladen weight not exceeding 102 kg which was manufactured
before 1st October 1982; and
(ii) 
a gritting trailer; or
(g) on
or after 1st October 1986, a gritting trailer with a maximum gross weight
not exceeding 2000 kg.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraph (7), a vehicle of a class specified in an item in column
2 of the Table shall comply with the requirements shown in column 3 in that
item, subject to any exemptions or modifications shown in column 4 in that
item, reference to numbers in column 3 being references to the requirements
so numbered in Schedule 3.


TABLE(regulation 16(4))


1 2 3 4
Item
 Class of vehicle Requirements in Schedule 3 Exemptions or modifications
 Motor cars
1 First used before 1st January
1915. 3, 6, 7, 13, 16 Requirements 13 and 16 do not apply to a motor car with
less than 4 wheels.
2 First used on or after 1st January 1915 but before
1st April 1938. 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 16 A works truck within items 1 to 11 is not subject
to requirements 1, 2, 3 or 4 if it is equipped with one braking system with
one means of operation.
3
 First used on or after 1st April 1938
and being either a track-laying vehicle or a vehicle first used before 1st
January 1968. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16
4 Wheeled vehicles first used on or after 1st January
1968. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18

 Heavy motor cars
5 
First used before 15th August 1928. 
1, 6, 16
6 First used on or after 15th August 1928 but before 1st April
1938. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16
7 First
used on or after 1st April 1938 and being either a track-laying vehicle or
a vehicle first used before 1st January 1968. 
1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16

8 Wheeled vehicles first used
on or after 1st January 1968. 
1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18
 Motor cycles
9 
First used before 1st January 1927. 
3, and, in the case of three-wheeled vehicles, 16
10 First used
on or after 1st January 1927 but before 1st January 1968. 2, 7, and, in the case of three-wheeled vehicles, 16
11 First used on or after 1st January 1968 and not being a motor cycle
to which paragraph (5)
applies. 2, 7, and, in the case of three-wheeled
vehicles, 18
 Locomotives
12 
Wheeled vehicles first used before 1st June 1955. 3, 6, 12, 16
13
 Wheeled vehicles first used on or after
1st June 1955 but before 1st January 1968. 
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18
14 Wheeled vehicles first used on or after 1st January
1968. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18
15 Track-laying vehicles. 3,
6, 16
 Motor tractors
16 
Wheeled vehicles first used before 14th January 1931 and track-laying vehicles
first used before 1st April 1938. 3,
4, 6, 7, 16 Industrial tractors within
items 16 to 19 are subject to requirement 5 instead of requirement 4.
17 
Wheeled vehicles first used on or after 14th January 1931 but before 1st April
1938. 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 16
18 Wheeled
vehicles first used on or after 1st April 1938 but before 1st January 1968.
 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16
19 Wheeled
vehicles first used on or after 1st January 1968. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18
20 Track-laying vehicles
first used on or after 1st April 1938. 
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16
 Wheeled agricultural motor
vehicles not driven at more than 20 mph
21 First used
before 1st January 1968. 3, 4, 6, 7,
8, 16
22 First used on or after 1st January 1968 but before 9th February
1980. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 18
23 
First used on or after 9th February 1980. 
3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18
 Invalid carriages
24 Whenever first used. 3, 13

 Trailers
25 Manufactured
before 1st April 1938. 3, 10, 14, 17

26 Manufactured on or after 1st April 1938 and being either a track-laying
vehicle, an agricultural trailer or a vehicle manufactured before 1st January
1968. 3, 8, 10, 14, 17 Agricultural trailers are not subject to requirement 8.

27 Wheeled vehicles manufactured on or after 1st January 1968, not
being an agricultural trailer. 3, 4,
8, 11, 15, 18 Trailers equipped with
brakes which come into operation on the overrun of the vehicle are not subject
to requirement 15.Provided that
wheeled agricultural motor vehicles not driven at more than 20 mph are excluded
from all items other than items 21 to 23.
(5) Save as
provided in paragraph (6), the braking system of every motor cycle with two
wheels (with or without a sidecar) first used on or after 1st April 1987 shall
comply with ECE Regulation 13.05.

(6) Paragraph
(5) does not apply to a works truck or to a vehicle constructed or assembled
by a person not ordinarily engaged in the business of manufacturing vehicles
of that description.
(7) Instead
of complying with the provisions of paragraph (4) of this Regulation an agricultural
motor vehicle may comply with Community Directive 76/432.

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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), every motor vehicle which is equipped with a braking
system which embodies a vacuum or pressure reservoir or reservoirs shall be
equipped with a device so placed as to be readily visible to the driver of
the vehicle and which is capable of indicating any impending failure of, or
deficiency in, the vacuum or pressure system.
(2) The requirement
specified in paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of—
(a) a
vehicle to which regulation 15
applies, or which complies with the requirements of that regulation, of Community Directive 79/489 or
of ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05;
(b) an
agricultural motor vehicle which complies with Community Directive 76/432;

(c) a
vehicle with an unladen weight not exceeding 3050 kg propelled by an internal
combustion engine, if the vacuum in the reservoir or reservoirs is derived
directly from the induction system of the engine, and if, in the event of
a failure of, or deficiency in, the vacuum system, the brakes of that braking
system are sufficient under the most adverse conditions to bring the vehicle
to rest within a reasonable distance; or
(d) a
vehicle first used before 1st October 1937.
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(1) Every
part of every braking system and of the means of operation thereof fitted
to a vehicle shall be maintained in good and efficient working order and be
properly adjusted.
(2) Paragraph
(3) applies to every wheeled motor vehicle except—
(a) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(b) a
works truck; and
(c) a
pedestrian-controlled vehicle.
(3) Every
vehicle to which this paragraph applies and which is of a class specified
in an item in column 2 of Table I shall, subject to any exemption shown for
that item in column 4, be so maintained that—
(a) its
service braking system has a total braking efficiency not less than that shown
in column 3(a) for that item; and
(b) if
the vehicle is a heavy motor car, a motor car first used on or after 1st January
1915 or a motor-cycle first used on or after 1st January 1927, its secondary
braking system has a total braking efficiency not less than that shown in
column 3(b) for those items.Provided that
a reference in Table I to a trailer is a reference to a trailer required by regulation 15 or 16 to be equipped
with brakes.

TABLE I(regulation 18(3))


1 2 3 4

Item Class of vehicle Efficiencies (%) 
Exemptions
  (a) (b)
1 A vehicle to which regulation 15
applies or which complies in all respects other than its braking efficiency
with the requirements of that regulation or with Community Directive 79/489
or with ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05—  A motor cycle.
 (a) when not drawing a trailer; 50 25
 (b) when drawing
a trailer 45 25
2 A vehicle, not
included in item 1 and not being a motor cycle, which is first used on or
after 1st January 1968—
 (a) when not
drawing a trailer; 50 25
 (b) when not drawing a trailer manufactured on or
after 1st January 1968; 
50 25
 (c) when drawing
a trailer manufactured before 1st January 1968 40 15
3 Goods vehicles first used on or after 15th August
1928 but before 1st January 1968 having an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg
being—
 (a) rigid vehicles
with 2 axles not constructed to form part of an articulated vehicle—

 (i) when not drawing a trailer 
45 20
 (ii) when drawing a trailer 
40 15
 (b) other vehicles,
including vehicles constructed to form part of an articulated vehicle, whether
or not drawing a trailer 
40 15
4 Vehicles not included in items 1 to 3—  (a) a bus;
 
(a) having at least one means of operation applying to at least
4 wheels; 50 25 (b) an articulated
vehicle;
 (b) having 3 wheels and
at least one means of operation applying to all 3 wheels and not being a motor
cycle with sidecar attached—  (c) a vehicle
constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated vehicle;
 
(i) when not drawing a trailer 40 25 
(d) a heavy motor car which is a goods vehicle first used before
15th August 1928.
 (ii) in the case of a motor cycle when drawing a
trailer 40 25
 (c) other
 (i) when not drawing a trailer 30 25
 (ii) in the case of a motor
cycle when drawing a trailer. 
30 25
(4) A goods
vehicle shall not be deemed to comply with the requirements of paragraph (3)
unless it is capable of complying with those requirements both at the laden
weight at which it is operating at any time and when its laden weight is equal
to—
(a) if
a plating certificate has been issued and is in force for the vehicle, the
design gross weight shown in column (3) of that certificate or, if no such
weight is so shown, the gross weight shown in column (2) of that certificate;
and
(b) in
any other case, the design gross weight of the vehicle.Provided that
in the case of a goods vehicle drawing a trailer, references in this paragraph
to laden weight refer to the combined laden weight of the drawing vehicle
and the trailer and references to gross weight and design gross weight are
to be taken as references to train weight and design train weight respectively.

(5) The brakes
of every agricultural motor vehicle which is first used on or after 1st June
1986 and is not driven at more than 20 mph, and of every agricultural trailer
manufactured on or after 1st December 1985 shall be capable of achieving a
braking efficiency of not less than 25% when the weight of the vehicle is
equal to the total maximum axle weights which the vehicle is designed to have.

(6) Every
vehicle or combination of vehicles specified in an item in column 2 of Table
II shall be so maintained that its brakes are capable, without the assistance
of stored energy, of holding it stationary on a gradient of at least the percentage
specified in column 3 in that item.

TABLE II(regulation 18(6))

1 2
 3
Item Class
of vehicle or combination Percentage
gradient

1 A vehicle specified in item 1 of Table
I—
 (a) when not
drawing a trailer 16
 (b) when drawing a trailer 12
2 A vehicle to which requirement 18 in Schedule 3 applies by virtue of regulation 16. 16
3 A vehicle, not included
in item 1, drawing a trailer manufactured on or after 1st January 1968 and
required, by regulation 15 or 16,
to be fitted with brakes. 
16
(7) For the
purpose of this regulation the date of manufacture of a trailer which is a
composite trailer shall be deemed to be the same as the date of manufacture
of the semi-trailer which forms part of the composite trailer.
(8) A vehicle
which is subject to, and which complies with the requirements in, item 1 in
Tables I and II shall not be treated as failing, by reason of its braking
efficiency, to comply with regulation 15
or with Community Directive 79/489
or ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05.
19 
Where a trailer is drawn by a motor vehicle the driver (or in the
case of a locomotive one of the persons employed in driving or tending the
locomotive) shall be in a position readily to operate any brakes required
by these Regulations to be fitted to the trailer as well as the brakes of
the motor vehicle unless a person other than the driver is in a position and
competent efficiently to apply the brakes of the trailer.
Provided that this
regulation shall not apply to a trailer which—
(a) 
in compliance with these Regulations, is fitted with brakes which automatically
come into operation on the overrun of the trailer; or
(b) 
which is a broken down vehicle being drawn, whether or not in consequence
of a breakdown, in such a manner that it cannot be steered by its own steering
gear.
C
20 
Every motor cycle and invalid carriage shall be a wheeled vehicle,
and every other motor vehicle and every trailer shall be either a wheeled
vehicle or a track-laying vehicle.
21 
All wheels of a wheeled vehicle which are fitted with tyres other
than pneumatic tyres shall have a rim diameter of not less than 670 mm.
Provided that this
regulation does not apply to—
(a) 
a motor vehicle first used on or before 2nd January 1933;
(b) 
a trailer manufactured before 1st January 1933;
(c) 
a wheel fitted to a motor car first used on or before 1st July 1936, if the
diameter of the wheel inclusive of the tyre is not less than 670 mm;
(d) 
a works truck or works trailer;
(e) 
a refuse vehicle;
(f) 
a pedestrian-controlled vehicle;
(g) 
a mobile crane;
(h) 
an agricultural trailed appliance;
(i) 
a broken down vehicle which is being drawn by a motor vehicle in consequence
of the breakdown; or
(j) 
an electrically propelled goods vehicle the unladen weight of which does not
exceed 1270 kg.
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraphs (3) and (4), every motor vehicle and every trailer
shall be equipped with suitable and sufficient springs between each wheel
and the frame of the vehicle.
(2) Save as
provided in paragraphs (3) and (4)in the case of a track-laying vehicle—

(a) resilient
material shall be interposed between the rims of the weight-carrying rollers
and the road surface so that the weight of the vehicle, other than that borne
by any wheel, is supported by the resilient material; and
(b) where
the vehicle is a heavy motor car, motor car, or trailer it shall have suitable
springs between the frame of the vehicle and the weight-carrying rollers.

(3) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
wheeled vehicle with an unladen weight not exceeding 4070 kg and which is—

(i) 
a motor tractor any unsprung wheel of which is fitted with a pneumatic tyre;

(ii) 
a motor tractor used in connection with railway shunting and which is used
on a road only when passing from one railway track to another in connection
with such use;
(iii) 
a vehicle specially designed, and mainly used, for work on rough ground or
unmade roads and every wheel of which is fitted with a pneumatic tyre and
which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(iv) 
a vehicle constructed or adapted for, and being used for, road sweeping and
every wheel of which is fitted with either a pneumatic tyre or a resilient
tyre and which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(b) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(c) an
agricultural trailer, or an agricultural trailed appliance;
(d) a
trailer used solely for the haulage of felled trees;
(e) a
motor cycle;
(f) a
mobile crane;
(g) a
pedestrian-controlled vehicle all the wheels of which are equipped with pneumatic
tyres;
(h) a
road roller;
(i) a
broken down vehicle; or
(j) a
vehicle first used on or before 1st January 1932.
(4) Paragraphs
(1) and (2)(b) do not apply to a works
truck or a works trailer.
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(1) Subject
to paragraph (2) this regulation applies to—
(a) a
semi-trailer with more than 2 wheels;
(b) a
track-laying vehicle with more than 2 wheels; and
(c) any
other vehicle with more than 4 wheels.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to a road roller.
(3) Save as
provided in paragraphs (4) and (5), every vehicle to which this regulation
applies shall be fitted with a compensating arrangement which will ensure
that under the most adverse conditions every wheel will remain in contact
with the road and will not be subject to abnormal variations of load.
(4) Paragraph
(3) does not apply in respect of a steerable wheel on which the load does
not exceed—
(a) if
it is a wheeled vehicle, 3560 kg; and
(b) if
it is a track-laying vehicle, 2540 kg.
(5) In the
application of paragraph (3) to an agricultural motor vehicle, wheels which
are in line transversely on one side of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
shall be regarded as one wheel.
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), every wheel of a vehicle of a class specified in
an item in column 2 of the Table shall be fitted with a tyre of a type specified
in that item in column 3 which complies with any conditions specified in that
item in column 4.
(2) The requirements
referred to in paragraph (1) do not apply to a road roller and are subject,
in the case of any item in the Table, to the exemptions specified in that
item in column 5.

TABLE(regulation 24(1))

1 2 3 4 5
Item 
Class of vehicle Type
of tyre Conditions Exemptions
1 
Locomotives not falling in item 6 Pneumatic
or resilient
2 Motor tractors not falling in item 6 Pneumatic or resilient No re-cut pneumatic tyre shall be fitted to any wheel of a vehicle
with an unladen weight of less than 2540 kg unless the diameter of the rim
of the wheel is at least 405 mm

3 Heavy motor cars not falling in item
6 Pneumatic  The following, if every wheel
not fitted with a pneumatic tyre is fitted with a resilient tyre—(a) a vehicle mainly used for
work on rough ground;(b)
a tower wagon;(c)
a vehicle fitted with a turn-table fire escape;(d) a refuse vehicle;(e) a works truck;(f) a vehicle first used before 3rd January 1933.

4 Motor cars not falling in item 6 
Pneumatic No re-cut tyre shall be fitted
to any wheel of a vehicle unless it is—(a) an electrically propelled goods vehicle or,(b) a goods vehicle with an
unladen weight of at least 2540 kg and the diameter of the rim of the wheel
is at least 405 mm. The following, if
every wheel not fitted with a pneumatic tyre is fitted with a resilient tyre—

(a) a vehicle mainly used for work on rough
ground;
(b) a refuse vehicle;
(c) a works truck;
(d) a vehicle with an unladen weight not
exceeding— 
(i) 1270 kg if electrically propelled;
(ii) 1020 kg in any other case;
(e) a tower wagon;
(f) a vehicle fitted with a turn-table fire
escape;
(g) a vehicle first used before 3rd January
1933.
5 Motor cycles Pneumatic
 No re-cut tyre shall be fitted The following, if every wheel not fitted with a
pneumatic tyre is fitted with a resilient tyre—(a) a works truck;(b) a pedestrian-controlled vehicle
6 Agricultural
motor vehicles which are not driven at more than 20 mph Pneumatic or resilient 
The same as for item 2 The requirement
in column 3 does not apply to a vehicle of which—
(a) every steering wheel is fitted with a
smooth-soled tyre which is not less than 60 mm wide where it touches the road;
and
(b) in the case of a wheeled vehicle, every
driving wheel is fitted with a smooth-soled tyre which— 
(i) is not less than 150 mm wide if the unladen
weight of the vehicle exceeds 3050 kg, or 76 mm wide in any other case, and
either
(ii) is shod with diagonal cross-bars not
less than 76 mm wide or more than 20 mm thick extending the full breadth of
the tyre and so arranged that the space between adjacent bars is not more
than 76 mm; or
(iii) is shod with diagonal cross-bars of
resilient material not less than 60 mm wide extending the full breadth of
the tyre and so arranged that the space between adjacent bars is not more
than 76 mm.

7 Trailers Pneumatic Except in the case
of a trailer mentioned in paragraph (d)
of column 5, no re-cut tyre shall be fitted to any wheel of a trailer drawn
by a heavy motor car or a motor car if the trailer—
(a) has an unladen weight not exceeding— 
(i) if it is a living van, 2040 kg; or
(ii) in any other case, 1020 kg; or
(b) is not constructed or adapted to carry
any load, other than plant or other special appliance which is a permanent
or essentially permanent fixture and has a gross weight not exceeding 2290
kg 
(a) an agricultural trailer manufactured
before 1st December 1985;
(b) an agricultural trailed appliance;
(c) a trailer used to carry water for a road
roller being used in connection with road works;
(d) the following if every wheel which is
not fitted with a pneumatic tyre is fitted with a resilient tyre— 
(i) a works trailer;
(ii) a refuse vehicle;
(iii) a trailer drawn by a heavy motor car
every wheel of which is not required to be fitted with a pneumatic tyre;
(iv) a broken down vehicle; or
(v) a trailer drawn by a vehicle which is
not a heavy motor car or a motor car.
(3) Save as
provided in paragraph (4) a wheel of a vehicle may not be fitted with a temporary
use spare tyre unless either—
(a) the
vehicle is a passenger vehicle (not being a bus) first used before 1st April
1987; or
(b) the
vehicle complies at the time of its first use with ECE Regulation 64.
(4) Paragraph
(3) does not apply to a vehicle constructed or assembled by a person not ordinarily
engaged in the trade or business of manufacturing vehicles of that description.

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(1) This regulation
applies—
(a) to
a goods vehicle first used before 1st April 1987 in respect of which a plating
certificate has been issued;
(b) to
a vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1987, which is a goods vehicle,
a bus or a trailer; and,
(c) from
1st April 1990 to every vehicle, whenever first used, which is a goods vehicle,
a bus or a trailer.
(2) Each axle
of a vehicle to which this regulation applies solely by virtue of paragraph
1(a) shall be equipped with tyres which,
as respects strength, are designed and maintained adequately to support the
maximum axle weight for that axle.
(3) Each axle
of a vehicle to which this regulation applies by virtue of paragraph (1)(b) or (c) shall
be equipped with tyres which are designed and maintained adequately to support
the maximum axle weight for that axle when the vehicle is driven at the speed
shown in column 3 in the Table in the item in which the vehicle is described
in column 2 (the lowest relevant speed being applicable to a vehicle which
is described in more than one item).

TABLE(regulation 25(3))

1 
2 3
Item Class of Vehicle 
Speed
1 A vehicle of a class for which a maximum speed is
prescribed by the 1984 Act. The speed
so prescribed
2 An electrically propelled vehicle having a maximum
speed less than 70 mph. The maximum speed

3 A bus which is not driven at more than 50 mph. 50 mph

4 A low platform trailer, or a municipal
vehicle, or a multi-stop local collection and delivery vehicle. 40 mph
5 A vehicle not
falling in items 1 to 4. 70 mph
(4) In this
regulation—
 “low platform trailer”
 means a trailer fitted with tyres of
20 rim diameter and below carrying a rectangular plate 7″ × 9″
carrying two letters “L” each 5″ high and 3½″
wide with a stroke width of ½″ the letters being black on a white
ground.
 “maximum axle weight”
means— 
(a) in the case of a vehicle equipped with a Ministry
plate in accordance with regulation 70
the axle weight shown in column (2) of that plate;
(b) in the case of a vehicle not equipped with a Ministry
plate, but which is equipped with a plate in accordance with regulation 66, the maximum axle
weight shown on the plate in respect of item 9 of Part I of Schedule 8
 in the case of a motor vehicle and item 7 of Part II of Schedule 8
in the case of a trailer;
(c) in any other case, the weight which the axle is designed
or adapted not to exceed when the vehicle is travelling on a road.
 “municipal vehicle”
means a motor vehicle or trailer limited at all times
to use by a local authority, or a person acting in pursuance of a contract
with a local authority, for road cleansing, road watering or the collection
and disposal of refuse, night soil or the contents of cesspools, or the purposes
of the enactments relating to weights and measures or the sale of food and
drugs.
 “multi-stop local collection
and delivery vehicle” means a motor
vehicle or trailer used for multi-stop collection and delivery services to
be used only within a radius of 25 miles from the permanent base at which
it is normally kept.
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (5) pneumatic tyres of different types of structure
shall not be fitted to the same axle of a wheeled vehicle.
(2) Save as
provided in paragraphs (3) or (5), a wheeled motor vehicle having only two
axles each of which is equipped with one or two single wheels shall not be
fitted with—
(a) a
diagonal-ply tyre or a bias-belted tyre on its rear axle if a radial-ply tyre
is fitted on its front axle; or
(b) a
diagonal-ply tyre on its rear axle if a bias-belted tyre is fitted on the
front axle.
(3) Paragraph
(2) does not apply to a vehicle to an axle of which there are fitted wide
tyres not specially constructed for use on engineering plant or to a vehicle
which has a maximum speed not exceeding 30 mph.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraph (5) pneumatic tyres fitted to—
(a) the
steerable axles of a wheeled vehicle; and
(b) the
driven axles of a wheeled vehicle, not being steerable axles,shall all be of the same type of structure.
(5) Paragraphs
(1), (2), and (4) do not prohibit the fitting of a temporary use spare tyre
to a wheel of a passenger vehicle (not being a bus) unless it is driven at
a speed exceeding 50 mph.
(6) In this
regulation—
 “axle” 
includes— 
(i) two or more stub axles which are fitted on opposite
sides of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle so as to form—
(a) a pair in the case of two stub axles; and
(b) pairs in the case of more than two stub axles; and
(ii) a single stub axle which is not one of a pair;
 “a bias-belted tyre”
means a pneumatic tyre, the structure of which is such
that the ply cords extend to the bead so as to be laid at alternate angles
of substantially less than 90 degrees to the peripheral line of the tread,
and are constrained by a circumferential belt comprising two or more layers
of substantially inextensible cord material laid at alternate angles smaller
than those of the ply cord structure;
 “a diagonal-ply tyre”
means a pneumatic tyre, the structure of which is such
that the ply cords extend to the bead so as to be laid at alternate angles
of substantially less than 90 degrees to the peripheral line of the tread,
but not being a bias-belted tyre;
 “a driven axle”
means an axle through which power is transmitted from
the engine of a vehicle to the wheels on that axle;
 “a radial-ply tyre”
means a pneumatic tyre, the structure of which is such
that the ply cords extend to the bead so as to be laid at an angle of substantially
90 degrees to the peripheral line of the tread, the ply cord structure being
stabilised by a substantially inextensible circumferential belt;

 “stub axle” means an axle on which only one wheel is mounted; and
 “type of structure”,
in relation to a tyre, means a type of structure of
a tyre of a kind defined in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.

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(1) Save as
provided in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), a wheeled motor vehicle or trailer
a wheel of which is fitted with a pneumatic tyre shall not be used on a road,
if—
(a) the
tyre is unsuitable having regard to the use to which the motor vehicle or
trailer is being put or to the types of tyres fitted to its other wheels;

(b) the
tyre is not so inflated as to make it fit for the use to which the motor vehicle
or trailer is being put;
(c) the
tyre has a cut in excess of 25 mm or 10% of the section width of the tyre,
whichever is the greater, measured in any direction on the outside of the
tyre and deep enough to reach the ply or cord;
(d) the
tyre has any lump, bulge or tear caused by separation or partial failure of
its structure;
(e) the
tyre has any of the ply or cord exposed;
(f) the
base of any groove which showed in the original tread pattern of the tyre
is not clearly visible;
(g) either—

(i) 
the grooves of the tread pattern of the tyre do not have a depth of at least
1 mm throughout a continuous band measuring at least three-quarters of the
breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre;
or
(ii) 
if the grooves of the original tread pattern of the tyre did not extend beyond
three-quarters of the breadth of the tread, any groove which showed in the
original tread pattern does not have a depth of at least 1 mm; or
(h) the
tyre is not maintained in such condition as to be fit for the use to which
the vehicle or trailer is being put or has a defect which might in any way
cause damage to the surface of the road or damage to persons on or in the
vehicle or to other persons using the road.
(2) Paragraph
(1) does not prohibit the use on a road of a motor vehicle or trailer by reason
only of the fact that a wheel of the vehicle or trailer is fitted with a tyre
which is deflated or not fully inflated and which has any of the defects described
in sub-paragraph (c), 
(d) or (e) of paragraph (1),
if the tyre and the wheel to which it is fitted are so constructed as to make
the tyre in that condition fit for the use to which the motor vehicle or trailer
is being put and the outer sides of the wall of the tyre are so marked as
to enable the tyre to be identified as having been constructed to comply with
the requirements of this paragraph.
(3) Paragraph
(1)(a) does not prohibit the use on a road
of a passenger vehicle (not being a bus) by reason only of the fact that a
wheel of the vehicle is fitted with a temporary use spare tyre, unless the
vehicle is driven at a speed exceeding 50 mph.
(4) 
(a) Nothing
in paragraph (1)(a) to 
(g) applies to—
(i) 
an agricultural motor vehicle that is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(ii) 
an agricultural trailer;
(iii) 
an agricultural trailed appliance; or
(iv) 
a broken down vehicle or a vehicle proceeding to a place where it is to be
broken up, being drawn, in either case, by a motor vehicle at a speed not
exceeding 20 mph.
(b) Nothing
in paragraph (1)(f) and 
(g) applies to—
(i) 
a three-wheeled motor cycle the unladen weight of which does not exceed 102
kg and which has a maximum speed of 12 mph; or
(ii) 
a pedestrian-controlled works truck.
(c) Nothing
in paragraph (1)(g) applies to a motorcycle
with an engine capacity which does not exceed 50 cc.
(5) A recut
pneumatic tyre shall not be fitted to any wheel of a motor vehicle or trailer
if—
(a) its
ply or cord has been cut or exposed by the recutting process; or
(b) it
has been wholly or partially recut in a pattern other than the manufacturer's
recut tread pattern.
(6) 
(a) In
this regulation—
 “breadth of tread”
means the breadth of that part of the tyre which can
contact the road under normal conditions of use measured at 90 degrees to
the peripheral line of the tread;
 “original tread pattern”
 means in the case of— 
 a re-treaded tyre, the tread pattern of the tyre immediately
after the tyre was re-treaded;
 a wholly recut tyre, the manufacturer's recut tread pattern;

 a partially recut tyre, on that part of the tyre which has
been recut, the manufacturer's recut tread pattern, and on the other part,
the tread pattern of the tyre when new, and
 any other tyre, the tread pattern of the tyre when the tyre
was new.
 “tie-bar”
means any part of a tyre moulded in the tread pattern
of the tyre for the purpose of bracing two or more features of such tread
pattern;
 “tread pattern”
means the combination of plain surfaces and grooves
extending across the breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference
of the tyre but excludes any— 
(i) tie bars or tread wear indicators;
(ii) features which are designed to wear out substantially
before the rest of the pattern under normal conditions of use; and
(iii) other minor features; and
 “tread wear indicator”
 means any bar, not being a tie-bar,
projecting from the base of a groove of the tread pattern of a tyre and moulded
between two or more features of the tread pattern of a tyre for the purpose
of indicating the extent of the wear of such tread pattern.
(b) The
references in paragraph (1)(g)(i) to grooves
are references—
 if a tyre has been recut, to the grooves of the manufacturer's
recut tread pattern; and
 if a tyre has not been recut, to the grooves which showed
when the tyre was new.
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(1) Every
part of every track of a track-laying vehicle which comes into contact with
the road shall be flat and have a width of not less than 12.5 mm.
(2) The area
of the track which is in contact with the road shall not at any time be less
than 225 cm2 in respect of every 1000 kg of the
total weight which is transferred to the road by the tracks.
(3) The tracks
of a vehicle shall not have any defect which might damage the road or cause
danger to any person on or in the vehicle or using the road, and shall be
properly adjusted and maintained in good and efficient working order.
D
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All steering gear fitted to a motor vehicle shall at all times
while the vehicle is used on a road be maintained in good and efficient working
order and be properly adjusted.
E
30 

(1) 
Every motor vehicle shall be so designed and constructed that the driver thereof
while controlling the vehicle can at all times have a full view of the road
and traffic ahead of the motor vehicle.
(2) 
Instead of complying with the requirement of paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply
with Community Directive 77/649, 81/643 or, in the case of an agricultural
motor vehicle, 79/1073.

(3) 
All glass or other transparent material fitted to a motor vehicle shall be
maintained in such condition that it does not obscure the vision of the driver
while the vehicle is being driven on a road.
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(1) 
This regulation applies to a motor vehicle which is—
(a) 
a wheeled vehicle, not being a caravan, first used before 1st June 1978;
(b) 
a caravan first used before 1st September 1978; or
(c) 
a track-laying vehicle.
(2) 
The glass fitted to any window specified in an item in column 3 of the Table
of a vehicle of a class specified in that item in column 2 shall be safety
glass.

TABLE(regulation 31(2))

1 2
 3
Item Class of vehicle 
Windows
1 Wheeled vehicles first used on or after 1st January
1959, being passenger vehicles or dual-purpose vehicles. Wind screens and all outside windows.
2 Wheeled
vehicles first used on or after 1st January 1959, being goods vehicles (other
than dual-purpose vehicles), locomotives or motor tractors. Windscreens and all windows in front of and on either side
of the driver's seat.
3 Wheeled vehicles not mentioned in item 1 or 2. Windscreens and windows facing to the front on the
outside, except glass fitted to the upper decks of a double-decked vehicle.

4 Track-laying vehicles. Windscreens
and windows facing to the front.
(3) 
For the purposes of this regulation any windscreen or window at the front
of the vehicle the inner surface of which is at an angle exceeding 30 degrees
to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle shall be deemed to face to the front.

(4) 
In this regulation and regulation 32, “safety
glass” means glass so constructed
or treated that if fractured it does not fly into fragments likely to cause
severe cuts.
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(1) 
This regulation applies to—
(a) 
a caravan first used on or after 1st September 1978, and
(b) 
a wheeled motor vehicle and a wheeled trailer, not being a caravan, first
used on or after 1st June 1978.
(2) 
Save as provided in paragraphs (3) to (9) the windows specified in column
2 of Table I in relation to a vehicle of a class specified in that column
shall be constructed of the material specified in column 3 of that Table.


TABLE I(regulation 32(2))

1 2
 3
Item Window Material

1 Windscreens and other windows wholly or partly on
either side of the driver's seat fitted to motor vehicles first used on or
after 1st April 1985. Specified safety
glass (1980).
2 Windscreens and other windows wholly or partly on
either side of the driver's seat fitted to a motor vehicles first used before
1st April 1985. Specified safety glass,
or specified safety glass (1980).

3 All other windows. Specified safety glass, specified safety glass (1980), or
safety glazing.
(3) 
The windscreens and all other windows of security vehicles or vehicles being
used for police purposes shall not be subject to the requirements specified
in paragraph (2), but shall be constructed of either safety glass or safety
glazing.
(4) 
The windscreens of motorcycles not equipped with an enclosed compartment for
the driver or for a passenger shall not be subject to the requirements specified
in paragraph (2), but shall be constructed of safety glazing.
(5) 
Any windscreens or other windows which are wholly or partly in front of or
on either side of the driver's seat, and which are temporarily fitted to motor
vehicles to replace any windscreens or other windows which have broken, shall—

(a) 
be constructed of safety glazing; and
(b) 
be fitted only while the vehicles are being driven or towed either to premises
where new windscreens or other windows are to be permanently fitted to replace
the windscreens or other windows which have broken, or to complete the journey
in the course of which the breakage occurred.
(6) 
Windows forming all or part of a screen or door in the interior of a bus first
used on or after 1st April 1988, shall be constructed either of safety glazing
or of specified safety glass (1980).
(7) 
Windows being—
(a) 
windows (other than windscreens) of motor vehicles being engineering plant,
industrial tractors, agricultural motor vehicles (other than agricultural
motor vehicles first used on or after 1st June 1986 and driven at more than
20 mph) which are wholly or partly in front of or on either side of the driver's
seat;
(b) 
windows of the upper deck of a double-decked bus; or
(c) 
windows in the roof of a vehicle,shall be constructed of either specified safety glass, specified
safety glass (1980) or safety glazing.
(8) 
In the case of motor vehicles and trailers which have not at any time been
fitted with permanent windows and which are being driven or towed to a place
where permanent windows are to be fitted, any temporary windscreens and any
other temporary windows shall be constructed of either specified safety glass,
specified safety glass (1980) or safety glazing.
(9) 
No requirement in this regulation that a windscreen or other window shall
be constructed of specified safety glass or of specified safety glass (1980)
shall apply to a windscreen or other window which is—
(a) 
manufactured in France;
(b) 
marked with a marking consisting of the letters “TP GS” or “TP
GS E”; and
(c) 
fitted to a vehicle first used before 1st October 1986.
(10) 
Save as provided in paragraph (11), the windscreens or other windows constructed
in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this regulation of specified
safety glass, specified safety glass (1980) or safety glazing and specified
in column 3 of Table II in relation to a vehicle of a class specified in column
2 of that Table shall have a visual transmission for light of not less than
the percentage specified in relation to those windows in column 4 when measured
perpendicular to the surface in accordance with the procedure specified in
a document specified in relation to those windows in column 5.

TABLE II(regulation 32(10))

1 2 3 4 5

Item Class of Vehicles
 Windows Percentage 
Documents specifying procedure
1 Motor vehicles first
used before 1st April 1985 All windows
 70 
British Standard Specification No. 857 or No. 5282
2 
Motor vehicles first used on or after 1st April 1985 and trailers (a) Windscreens
 75 
The documents mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii)
of the definition in paragraph (13)
of “specified safety glass (1980).”
  (b) All other
windows 70
(11) 
Paragraph (10) does not apply to—
(a) 
any part of any windscreen which is outside the vision reference zone;
(b) 
windows through which the driver when in the driver's seat is unable at any
time to see any part of the road on which the vehicle is waiting or proceeding;

(c) 
windows in any motor ambulance which are not wholly or partly in front of
or on either side of any part of the driver's seat; or
(d) 
windows in any bus, goods vehicle, locomotive, or motor tractor other than
windows which—
(i) 
are wholly or partly in front of or on either side of any part of the driver's
seat;
(ii) face the rear of the vehicle; or
(iii) form the whole or part of a door giving access to or from the exterior
of the vehicle.
(12) 
For the purposes of this regulation any window at the rear of the vehicle
is deemed to face the rear of the vehicle if the inner surface of such window
is at an angle exceeding 30 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

(13) 
In this regulation, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “British Standard Specification
No. 857” means the British Standard
Specification for Safety Glass for Land Transport published on 30th June 1967
under the number BS 857 as amended by Amendment Slip No. 1 published on 15th
January 1973 under the number AMD 1088;
 “British Standard Specification
No. 5282” means the British Standard
Specification for Road Vehicle Safety Glass published in December 1975 under
the number BS 5282 as amended by Amendment Slip No. 1 published on 31st March
1976 under the number AMD 1927, and as amended by Amendment Slip No. 2 published
on 31st January 1977 under the number AMD 2185;
 “British Standard Specification
BS AU 178” means the British Standard
Specification for Road Vehicle Safety Glass published on 28th November 1980
under the number BS AU 178;
 “caravan”
means a trailer which is constructed (and not merely
adapted) for human habitation;
 “safety glass” has the meaning given to it in regulation 31;

 “safety glazing”
means material (other than glass) which is so constructed
or treated that if fractured it does not fly into fragments likely to cause
severe cuts;
 “security vehicle”
means a motor vehicle which is constructed (and not
merely adapted) for the carriage of either— 
(i) persons who are likely to require protection
from any criminal offence involving violence; or
(ii) dangerous substances, bullion, money, jewellery,
documents or other goods or burden which, by reason of their nature or value,
are likely to require protection from any criminal offence;
 “specified safety glass”
 means glass complying with the requirements
of either— 
(i) British Standard Specification No. 857 (including
the requirements as to marking); or
(ii) British Standard Specification No. 5282 (including
the requirements as to marking);
 “specified safety glass (1980)”
 means glass complying with the requirements
of either— 
(i) the British Standard Specification for Safety
Glass for Land Transport published on 30th June 1967 under the number BS 857
as amended by Amendment Slip No. 1 published on 15th January 1973 under the
number AMD 1088, Amendment Slip No. 2 published on 30th September 1980 under
the number AMD 3402, and Amendment Slip No. 4 published on 15th February 1981
under the number AMD 3548 (including the requirements as to marking); or
(ii) British Standard Specification BS AU 178 (including
the requirements as to marking); or
(iii) ECE Regulation 43
(including the requirements as to marking).
 “vision reference zone”
 means either— 
(i) the primary vision area as defined in British
Standard Specification No. 857;
(ii) Zone 1, as defined in British Standard Specification
No. 5282;
(iii) Zone B (as regards passenger vehicles other
than buses) and Zone 1 (as regards all other vehicles) as defined in British
Standard Specification BS AU 178 and in ECE Regulation 43;
and
 “windscreen” includes a windshield;
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(1) 
Save as provided in paragraphs (5) and (6), a motor vehicle (not being a road
roller) which is of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table
shall be fitted with such mirror or mirrors, if any, as are specified in that
item in column 3; and any mirror which is fitted to such a vehicle shall,
whether or not it is required to be fitted, comply with the requirements,
if any, specified in that item in column 4.
(2) 
Save as provided in paragraph (5), each exterior mirror with which a vehicle
is required to be fitted in accordance with item 2 or 6 of the Table shall,
if the vehicle has a technically permissible maximum weight (as mentioned
in Annex 1 to Community Directive 71/127)
exceeding 3500 kg, be a Class II mirror (as described in that Annex) and shall
in any other case be a Class II or a Class III mirror (as described in that
Annex).
(3) 
Save as provided in paragraph (5), in the case of a wheeled motor vehicle
described in item 1, 2, 7 or 8 of the Table which is first used on or after
1st April 1969 the edges of any mirror fitted internally shall be surrounded
by some material such as will render it unlikely that severe cuts would be
caused if the mirror or that material were struck by any occupant of the vehicle.

(4) 
Save as provided in paragraph (5), in the case of a motor vehicle falling
within paragraph (a) in column 4 of items
1 and 5, or within item 6, of the Table—
(a) 
each mirror shall be fixed to the vehicle in such a way that it remains steady
under normal driving conditions;
(b) 
each exterior mirror on a vehicle fitted with windows and a windscreen shall
be visible to the driver, when in his driving position, through a side window
or through the portion of the windscreen which is swept by the windscreen
wiper;
(c) 
where the bottom edge of an exterior mirror is less than 2 m above the road
surface when the vehicle is laden, that mirror shall not project more than
20 cm beyond the overall width of the vehicle or, in a case where the vehicle
is drawing a trailer which has an overall width greater than that of the drawing
vehicle, more than 20 cm beyond the overall width of the trailer;
(d) 
each interior mirror shall be capable of being adjusted by the driver when
in his driving position; and
(e) 
except in the case of a mirror which, if knocked out of its alignment, can
be returned to its former position without needing to be adjusted, each exterior
mirror on the driver's side of the vehicle shall be capable of being adjusted
by the driver when in his driving position, but this requirement shall not
prevent such a mirror from being locked into position from the outside of
the vehicle.

TABLE(regulation 33(1))

1
 2 3 4
Item Class of vehicle Mirrors to be fitted Requirements to be complied with by any mirrors
fitted
1 A motor vehicle which is—
(a) drawing a trailer, if a person is carried
on the trailer so that he has an uninterrupted view to the rear and has an
efficient means of communicating to the driver the effect of signals given
by the drivers of other vehicles to the rear;
(b) 
(i) a works truck;
(ii) a track-laying agricultural motor vehicle;
and
(iii) a wheeled agricultural motor vehicle
first used before 1st June 1978,  if, in each case, the driver
can easily obtain a view to the rear;
(c) a pedestrian-controlled vehicle;
(d) a chassis being driven from the place
where it has been manufactured to the place where it is to receive a vehicle
body; or
(e) an agricultural motor vehicle which has
an unladen weight exceeding 7370 kg and which— 
(i) is a track-laying vehicle or
(ii) is a wheeled vehicle first used before
1st June 1978 No requirement
 (a)
If the vehicle is a wheeled vehicle first used on or after 1st June 1978, Item 2 of Annex I to Community Directive 71/127
or 79/795 or Annex II to Community Directive 85/205
and paragraph (4)
of this regulation.(b)
In other cases, none, except as specified in paragraph (3).

2 A motor vehicle, not included in Item 1, which is—(a) a wheeled locomotive or
a wheeled motor tractor first used in either case on or after 1st June 1978;
(b) an agricultural
motor vehicle, not being a track-laying vehicle with an unladen weight not
exceeding 7370 kg (which falls in item 8) or a wheeled agricultural motor
vehicle first used after 1st June 1986 which is driven at more than 20 mph
(which falls in item (6)); or
(c) a works truck. At least
one mirror fitted externally on the offside 
None except as specified in paragraphs (2) and (3).

3 A wheeled motor vehicle not included in item 1 first used on or
after 1st April 1983 which is—
(a) a bus; or(b)
 a goods vehicle with a maximum gross weight exceeding 3500 kg
(not being an agricultural motor vehicle or one which is not driven at more
than 20 mph) other than a vehicle described in item 4. Mirrors complying with item 3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 79/795 or with paragraph 2.1 of Annex III to Community Directive 85/205
or, except in the case of a goods vehicle first used on or after 1st April
1985, mirrors as required in the entry in this column in item 6 Item 2 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 71/127 or 79/795 or Annex II to Community Directive 85/205.

4 A goods vehicle not being an agricultural motor vehicle with a
maximum gross weight exceeding 12,000 kg which is first used on or after 1st
October 1988 Mirrors complying with paragraph 2.1 of Annex III to Community Directive 85/205 Annex II to Community Directive 85/205.

5 A two-wheeled motor cycle with or without a sidecar attached No requirement (a) If the vehicle is first used on or after 1st
October 1978, Item 2 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 71/127, 79/795
or 80/780 or Annex II to Community Directive 85/205
and paragraph (4)
of this regulation.(b)
In other cases, none.
6 A wheeled motor vehicle not in items 1 to 5, which
is first used on or after 1st June 1978 (or, in the case of a Ford Transit
motor car, 10th July 1978) (i) At least
one mirror fitted externally on the offside of the vehicle; and(ii) at least one mirror fitted internally, unless a mirror so
fitted would give the driver no view to the rear of the vehicle; and(iii) at least one mirror fitted externally on the nearside of
the vehicle unless a mirror which gives the driver an adequate view to the
rear is fitted internally Item 2 of Annex I to Community Directive 71/127
or 79/795 or Annex II to Community Directive 85/205
and paragraphs (2) and (4)
of this regulation.
7 A wheeled motor vehicle, not in items 1 to 5, first
used before 1st June 1978 (or in the case of a Ford Transit motor car, 10th
July 1978) and a track-laying motor vehicle which is not an agricultural motor
vehicle first used on or after 1st January 1958, which in either case is—
(a) a bus;(b) a dual-purpose vehicle;
or(c) a goods vehicle.
 At least one mirror fitted externally
on the offside of the vehicle and at least one mirror fitted either internally
or externally on the near-side of the vehicle 
None, except as specified in paragraph (3).

8 A motor vehicle, whether wheeled or track-laying, not in items
1 to 7 At least one mirror fitted either
internally or externally None, except
as specified in paragraph (3).

(5) 
Instead of complying with paragraphs (1) to (4) a vehicle may comply—

(a) 
if it is a goods vehicle with a maximum gross weight exceeding 3500 kg first
used on or after 1st April 1985, with Community Directive 79/795
or 85/205; or
(b) 
in any other case, with Community Directive 71/127, 79/795 or 85/205 or, in the case of an agricultural
motor vehicle, 74/346.

(6) 
Instead of complying with the provisions of column 4 in items 3, 5 or 6 of
the Table a mirror may comply with the requirements as to construction and
testing set out either in Annex I to Community Directive 71/127,
excluding paragraphs 2.3.4
and 2.6,
or in Annex I to Community Directive 79/795,
excluding paragraphs 2.3.3
and 2.6.

(7) 
In this regulation “mirror” means 
a mirror to assist the driver of a vehicle to become aware of traffic— 
(i) if
it is an internal mirror, to the rear of the vehicle; and
(ii) if it is an external mirror fitted on one side of the vehicle,
rearwards on that side of the vehicle.In the case of an agricultural motor vehicle or a vehicle described
in items 2 or 6 in the Table when drawing a trailer, the references to a vehicle
in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) include references to the trailer so drawn.

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(1) 
Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), every vehicle fitted with a windscreen
shall, unless the driver can obtain an adequate view to the front of the vehicle
without looking through the windscreen, be fitted with one or more efficient
automatic windscreen wipers capable of clearing the windscreen so that the
driver has an adequate view of the road in front of both sides of the vehicle
and to the front of the vehicle.
(2) 
Save as provided in paragraphs (3), (4) and (5), every wheeled vehicle required
by paragraph (1) to be fitted with a wiper or wipers shall also be fitted
with a windscreen washer capable of cleaning, in conjunction with the windscreen
wiper, the area of the windscreen swept by the wiper of mud or similar deposit.

(3) 
The requirement specified in paragraph (2) does not apply in respect of—

(a) 
an agricultural motor vehicle (other than a vehicle first used on or after
1st June 1986 which is driven at more than 20 mph);
(b) 
a track-laying vehicle;
(c) 
a vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 20 mph; or
(d) 
a vehicle being used to provide a local service, as defined in the Transport Act 1985.

(4) 
Instead of complying with paragraphs (1) and (2), a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 78/318.
(5) 
Instead of complying with paragraph (1) an agricultural motor vehicle may
comply with Community Directive 79/1073.

(6) 
Every wiper and washer fitted in accordance with this regulation shall at
all times while a vehicle is being used on a road be maintained in efficient
working order and be properly adjusted.
F
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), every motor vehicle shall be fitted with
a speedometer which, if the vehicle is first used on or after 1st April 1984,
shall be capable of indicating speed in both miles per hour and kilometres
per hour, either simultaneously or, by the operation of a switch, separately.

(2) Paragraph
(1) does not apply to—
(a) a
vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;
(b) a
vehicle which it is at all times unlawful to drive at more than 25 mph;
(c) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(d) a
motor cycle first used before 1st April 1984 the engine of which has a cylinder
capacity not exceeding 100 cc;
(e) an
invalid carriage first used before 1st April 1984;
(f) a
works truck first used before 1st April 1984;
(g) a
vehicle first used before 1st October 1937; or
(h) a
vehicle equipped with recording equipment marked with a marking designated
as an approval mark by regulation 5
of the Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 3 in Schedule 4
to those Regulations (whether or not the vehicle is required to be equipped
with that equipment) and which, as regards the visual indications given by
that equipment of the speed of the vehicle, complies with the requirements
relating to the said indications and installations specified in the Community
Recording Equipment Regulation.
(3) Instead
of complying with paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 75/443 or
with ECE Regulation 39.

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(1) Every
instrument for indicating speed fitted to a motor vehicle—
(a) in
compliance with the requirements of regulation 35(1)
or (3);
or
(b) to
which regulation 35(2)(h)
relates and which is not, under the Community Recording Equipment Regulation,
required to be equipped with the recording equipment mentioned in that paragraph,
shall be kept free from any obstruction which might prevent its
being easily read and shall at all material times be maintained in good working
order.
(2) In this
regulation “all material times” means all times when the motor vehicle is in use on a road except when— 
(a) the vehicle
is being used on a journey during which, as a result of a defect, the instrument
ceased to be in good working order; or

(b) 
as a result of a defect, the instrument has ceased to be in good working order
and steps have been taken to have the vehicle equipped with all reasonable
expedition, by means of repairs or replacement, with an instrument which is
in good working order.
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(1) 
(a) Subject
to sub-paragraph (b), every motor vehicle
which has a maximum speed of more than 20 mph shall be fitted with a horn,
not being a reversing alarm or a two-tone horn.
(b) Sub-paragraph (a) shall not apply to an agricultural motor vehicle,
unless it is being driven at more than 20 mph.
(2) Subject
to paragraph (6), the sound emitted by any horn, other than a reversing alarm
or a two-tone horn, fitted to a wheeled vehicle first used on or after 1st
August 1973 shall be continuous and uniform and not strident.
(3) A reversing
alarm fitted to a wheeled vehicle shall not be strident.
(4) Subject
to paragraphs (5), (6) and (7) no motor vehicle shall be fitted with a bell,
gong, siren or two-tone horn.
(5) The provisions
of paragraph (4) shall not apply to motor vehicles—
(a) used
for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(b) owned
by a body formed primarily for the purposes of fire salvage and used for those
or similar purposes;
(c) owned
by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time
for the purposes of fighting fires;
(d) owned
by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for the purposes of the disposal
of bombs or explosives;
(e) used
for the purposes of the Blood Transfusion Service provided under the National Health Service Act 1977
 or under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947;

(f) used
by Her Majesty's Coastguard or the Coastguard Auxiliary Service to aid persons
in danger or vessels in distress on or near the coast;
(g) owned
by the National Coal Board and used for the purposes of rescue operations
at mines;
(h) owned
by the Secretary of State for Defence and used by the Royal Air Force Mountain
Rescue Service for the purposes of rescue operations in connection with crashed
aircraft or any other emergencies; or
(i) owned
by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and used for the purposes of launching
lifeboats.
(6) The provisions
of paragraphs (2) and (4) shall not apply so as to make it unlawful for a
motor vehicle to be fitted with an instrument or apparatus (not being a two-tone
horn) designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing members of the
public that goods are on the vehicle for sale.
(7) Subject
to paragraph (8), the provisions of paragraph (4) shall not apply so as to
make it unlawful for a vehicle to be fitted with a bell, gong or siren—

(a) if
the purpose thereof is to prevent theft or attempted theft of the vehicle
or its contents; or
(b) in
the case of a bus, if the purpose thereof is to summon help for the driver,
the conductor or an inspector.
(8) Every
bell, gong or siren fitted to a vehicle by virtue of paragraph (7)(a), and every device fitted to a motor vehicle first
used on or after 1st October 1982 so as to cause a horn to sound for the purpose
mentioned in paragraph (7)(a), shall be
fitted with a device designed to stop the bell, gong, siren or horn emitting
noise for a continuous period of more than five minutes; and every such device
shall at all times be maintained in good working order.
(9) Instead
of complying with paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) to (8), a vehicle may comply
with Community Directive 70/388
or ECE Regulation 28
or, if the vehicle is an agricultural motor vehicle, with Community Directive 74/151.
(10) In this
regulation and in regulation 99—

(a) “horn”
means an instrument, not being a bell, gong or siren,
capable of giving audible and sufficient warning of the approach or position
of the vehicle to which it is fitted;
(b) 
references to a bell, gong or siren include references to any instrument or
apparatus capable of emitting a sound similar to that emitted by a bell, gong
or siren;
(c) “reversing
alarm” means a device fitted to
a motor vehicle and designed to warn persons that the vehicle is reversing
or is about to reverse; and
(d) “two-tone horn”
 means an instrument which, when operated,
automatically produces a sound which alternates at regular intervals between
two fixed notes.
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(1) No motor
cycle first used on or after 1st April 1986 shall be fitted with any sidestand
which is capable of—
(a) disturbing
the stability or direction of the motor cycle when it is in motion under its
own power; or
(b) closing
automatically if the angle of the inclination of the motor cycle is inadvertently
altered when it is stationary.
(2) In this
regulation 
“sidestand” means a device
fitted to a motor cycle which, when fully extended or pivoted to its open
position, supports the vehicle from one side only and so that both the wheels
of the motor cycle are on the ground.
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(1) Subject
to paragraph (2), every tank containing petroleum spirit (as defined in section 23
of the Petroleum
(Consolidation) Act 1928 which is fitted to
a wheeled vehicle first used on or after 1st July 1973, and is used either
for the propulsion of the vehicle or for driving an ancillary engine or equipment
forming part of the vehicle shall be—
(a) made
only of metal;
(b) fixed
in such a position and so maintained as to be reasonably secure from damage;
and
(c) constructed
and maintained so that the leakage of any liquid or vapour from the tank is
adequately prevented, so, however, that the tank may be fitted with a device
which, by the intake of air or the emission of vapour, relieves changes of
pressure in the tank.
(2) Instead
of complying with the requirements of paragraph (1) as to construction, a
vehicle may comply with the requirements of Community Directive 70/221
(insofar as they relate to fuel tanks) or ECE Regulation 34
or 34.01 or, if
the vehicle is an agricultural motor vehicle, of Community Directive 74/151.

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(1) A vehicle
which is—
(a) a
motor vehicle which first used gas as a fuel for its propulsion before 19th
November 1982; or
(b) a
trailer manufactured before 19th November 1982 to which there is fitted a
gas container,shall be so constructed that it complies either with the provisions
of Schedule 4 or
with the provisions of Schedule 5.

(2) A vehicle
which is—
(a) a
motor vehicle which first used gas as a fuel for its propulsion on or after
19th November 1982; or
(b) a
motor vehicle first used on or after 1st May 1984 or a trailer manufactured
on or after 19th November 1982 which is in either case equipped with a gas
container or a gas-fired appliance,shall comply with the provisions of Schedule 5.

(3) The requirements
of this regulation are in addition to, and not in derogation from, the requirements
of any regulations made under powers conferred by the petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928,
the Health and Safety at Work etc.
Act 1974, the Control of Pollution Act 1974
or any other Act or of any codes of practice issued under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

(4) In this
regulation “gas container” 
has the meaning given in Schedule 4
where compliance with the provisions of that Schedule is concerned and otherwise
has the meaning given in Schedule 5.

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41 
The requirements specified in Schedule 6
shall apply to every minibus first used on or after 1st April 1988 except
a vehicle—
(a) manufactured
by Land Rover U.K. Limited and known as the Land Rover; or
(b) constructed
or adapted for the secure transport of prisoners.
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(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a minibus first used on
or after 1st April 1988 unless it carries suitable and efficient apparatus
for extinguishing fire which is of a type specified in Part I of Schedule 7.
(2) The apparatus
referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be—
(a) readily
available for use;
(b) clearly
marked with the appropriate British Standards Institution specification number;
and
(c) maintained
in good and efficient working order.
(3) This regulation
does not apply to a vehicle manufactured by Land Rover U.K. Limited and known
as the Land Rover.
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(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a minibus first used on
or after 1st April 1988 unless it carries a receptacle which contains the
items specified in Part II of Schedule 7.

(2) The receptacle
referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be—
(a) maintained
in a good condition;
(b) suitable
for the purpose of keeping the items referred to in the said paragraph in
good condition;
(c) readily
available for use; and
(d) prominently
marked as a first aid receptacle.
(3) The items
referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be maintained in good condition and
shall be of a good and reliable quality and of a suitable design.
(4) This regulation
does not apply to a vehicle manufactured by Land Rover U.K. Limited and known
as the Land Rover.
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use or cause or permit to be used
on a road a minibus by which any highly inflammable or otherwise dangerous
substance is carried unless that substance is carried in containers so designed
and constructed, and unless the substance is so packed, that, notwithstanding
an accident to the vehicle, it is unlikely that damage to the vehicle or injury
to passengers in the vehicle will be caused by the substance.
(2) Paragraph
(1) shall not apply in relation to the electrolyte of a battery installed
in an electric wheelchair provided that the wheelchair is securely fixed to
the vehicle.
(3) This regulation
does not apply to a vehicle manufactured by Land Rover U.K. Limited and known
as the Land Rover.
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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), every wheeled vehicle which is propelled by a compression
ignition engine and which is required to be equipped with a plate by regulation 66(1) shall be so constructed
that the power of its engine, calculated in accordance with paragraph I of Part III of Schedule 8,
is at least 4.4 k W for every 1000 kg of the relevant weight.
(2) Paragraph
(1) does not apply to—
(a) a
heavy motor car or motor car first used before 1st April 1973;
(b) a
vehicle manufactured before 1st April 1973 and powered by a Perkins 6.354
engine; or
(c) a
bus.
(3) Every
vehicle to which this regulation applies shall—
(a) if
it is equipped with machinery or apparatus forming part of the vehicle or
mounted on it and used for purposes not connected with the driving of the
vehicle;
(b) if
that machinery or apparatus is designed for use, or is likely to be used,
when the vehicle is in motion on a road at a speed exceeding 5 mph; and
(c) if
the power absorbed by that use is provided by the engine propelling the vehicle,
be so constructed that, when that machinery or apparatus is being
used, the power of the engine remaining available to drive the vehicle is
at least 4.4 kW for every 1000 kg of the relevant weight.
(4) In this
regulation “relevant weight” means— 
(a) if the vehicle is equipped with a plate in accordance with regulation 66(2)(a), the maximum
train weight shown at item 8 on that plate or, if no such weight is shown,
the maximum gross weight in Great Britain shown at item 10 on that plate;
or

(b) 
if the vehicle is equipped with a plate in accordance with regulation 66(2)(b) and—

(i) 
is constructed to draw a trailer, the higher of the weights referred to in
column 3 in item 2.1.5 in the Table in regulation 66;
or
(ii) 
is not constructed to draw a trailer, the higher of the weights for motor
vehicles referred to in columns 3 and 4 in item 2.1.4 in the Table in regulation 66.
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(1) Save as
provided by paragraph (2), this regulation applies to—
(a) every
wheeled motor car first used on or after 1st January 1965; and
(b) every
three-wheeled motor cycle the unladen weight of which exceeds 255 kg and which
was first used on or after 1st September 1970.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
goods vehicle (other than a dual-purpose vehicle) which was first used—

(i) 
before 1st April 1967; or
(ii) 
on or after 1st April 1980 and has a maximum gross weight in Great Britain
(determined in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 11)
exceeding 3500 kg; or
(iii) 
before 1st April 1980 or, if the vehicle is of a model manufactured before
1st October 1979, was first used before 1st April 1982 and, in either case,
has an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg;
(b) a
passenger or dual-purpose vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than
twelve passengers exclusive of the driver;
(c) an
agricultural motor vehicle;
(d) an
industrial tractor;
(e) a
works truck;
(f) an
electrically-propelled goods vehicle;
(g) a
pedestrian-controlled vehicle;
(h) a
vehicle which has been used on roads outside Great Britain and has been imported
into Great Britain, whilst it is being driven from the place where it has
arrived in Great Britain to a place of residence of the owner or driver of
the vehicle, or from any such place to a place where, by previous arrangement,
it will be provided with such anchorage points as are required by this regulation
and such seat belts as are required by regulation 47;

(i) a
vehicle which is incapable by reason of its construction of exceeding a speed
of 16 mph on the level under its own power; or
(j) a
motor cycle equipped with a driver's seat of a type requiring the driver to
sit astride it, and which is constructed or assembled by a person not ordinarily
engaged in the trade or business of manufacturing vehicles of that description.

(3) A vehicle
which was first used before 1st April 1982 shall be equipped with anchorage
points which are designed to hold securely in position on the vehicle seat
belts for the driver's seat and specified passenger's seat (if any).
(4) A vehicle
which is first used on or after 1st April 1982 shall be equipped with anchorage
points which—
(a) are
designed to hold securely in position on the vehicle seat belts for—

(i) 
in the case of a bus, a motor ambulance or a motor caravan, the driver's seat
and the specified passenger's seat (if any); and
(ii) 
in any other case, every forward-facing seat constructed or adapted to accommodate
one adult, and
(b) comply
with Community Directive 76/115
or 81/575 or 82/318 or ECE Regulation 14 whether or not
those instruments apply to the vehicle, so however, that the requirements
in those instruments which relate to testing shall not apply.
(5) A vehicle
of a type mentioned in paragraph (4)(a)(i),
which is first fitted with anchorage points for seats other than the driver's
and the specified passenger's (if any) on or after 1st April 1986 shall comply
with the requirements in paragraph (4)(b)
in respect of such additional anchorage points as well as those required by
paragraph (4)(a)(i) to be provided.
(6) In this
regulation—
(a) the
expressions 
“forward-facing seat”, “seat belt”
and 
“specified passenger's seat” 
have the same meaning as in regulation 47(8);
and
(b) the
expression “motor caravan” 
has the same meaning as in regulation 2(2)
of the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations.
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(1) This regulation
applies to every vehicle to which regulation 46
applies.
(2) Save as
provided in paragraph (4) a vehicle to which—
(a) this
regulation applies which was first used before 1st April 1981 shall be provided
with—
(i) 
a body-restraining seat belt, designed for use by an adult, for the driver's
seat; and
(ii) 
a body-restraining seat belt for the specified passenger's seat (if any);

(b) this
regulation applies which is first used on or after 1st April 1981 shall be
provided with three-point seat belts for the driver's seat and for the specified
passenger's seat (if any);
(c) regulation 46(4)(a)(ii) applies
which is first used on or after 1st April 1987 shall be fitted with seat belts
additional to those required by sub-paragraph (b)
 as follows—
(i) 
for any forward-facing front seat alongside the driver's seat, not being a
specified passenger's seat, a seat belt which is a three-point belt, or a
lap belt installed in accordance with paragraph 3.1.2.1 of Annex 1
to Community
Directive 77/541 or a disabled person's belt;

(ii) 
in the case of a passenger or dual-purpose vehicle having not more than two
forward-facing seats behind the driver's seat with either—(A) 
an inertia reel belt for at least one of those seats, or(B) 
a three-point belt, a lap belt, a disabled person's belt or a child restraint
for each of those seats;
(iii) 
in the case of a passenger or dual-purpose vehicle having more than two forward-facing
seats behind the driver's seat, with either—(A) 
an inertia reel belt for one of those seats being an outboard seat and a three-point
belt, a lap belt, a disabled person's belt or a child restraint for at least
one other of those seats;(B) 
a three-point belt for one of those seats and either a child restraint or
a disabled person's belt for at least one other of those seats; or(C) 
a three-point belt, a lap belt, a disabled person's belt or a child restraint
for each of those seats.
(3) Every
seat belt for an adult, other than a disabled person's belt, provided for
a vehicle in accordance with paragraph (2)(b)
or (c) shall, except as provided in paragraph
(6), comply with the installation requirements specified in 
paragraph 3.2.2 to 3.3.4 of Annex I to Community Directive 77/541
whether or not that Directive applies to the vehicle.
(4) The requirements
specified in paragraph (2) do not apply—
(a) to
a vehicle while it is being used under a trade licence within the meaning
of section 16 of
the 1971 Act;
(b) to
a vehicle, not being a vehicle to which the Type Approval (Great Britain)
Regulations apply, while it is being driven from premises of the manufacturer
by whom it was made, or of a distributor of vehicles or dealer in vehicles—

(i) 
to premises of a distributor of or dealer in vehicles or of the purchaser
of the vehicle, or
(ii) 
to premises of a person obtaining possession of the vehicle under a hiring
agreement or hire-purchase agreement;
(c) in
relation to any seat for which there is provided—
(i) 
a seat belt which bears a mark including the specification number of the British
Standard for Passive Belt Systems, namely BS AU 183:1983 and including the
registered certification trade mark of the British Standards Institution;
or
(ii) 
a seat belt designed for use by an adult which is a harness belt comprising
a lap belt and shoulder straps which bears a British Standard mark or a mark
including the specification number for the British Standard for Seat Belt
Assemblies for Motor Vehicles, namely BS 3254:1960 and including the registered
certification trade mark of the British Standards Institution, or the marking
designated in item 16 in Schedule 2
to the Approval Marks Regulations;
(d) in
relation to the driver's seat or the specified passenger's seat (if any) of
a vehicle which has been specially designed and constructed, or specially
adapted, for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability,
in a case where a disabled person's belt for an adult person is provided for
use for that seat.
(5) Every
seat belt provided in pursuance of paragraph (2) shall be properly secured
to the anchorage points provided for it in accordance with regulation 46; or, in the case
of a child restraint, to anchorages specially provided for it or, in the case
of a disabled person's belt, secured to the vehicle or to the seat which is
being occupied by the person wearing the belt.
(6) Paragraph
(3), in so far as it relates to the second paragraph of paragraph 3.3.2 of the Annex there
mentioned (which concerns the locking or releasing of a seat belt by a single
movement) does not apply in respect of a seat belt fitted for—
(a) a
seat which is treated as a specified passenger's seat by virtue of the provisions
of sub-paragraph (ii) in the definition of “specified passenger's seat”
in paragraph (8); or
(b) any
forward-facing seat for a passenger alongside the driver's seat of a goods
vehicle which has an unladen weight of more than 915 kg and has more than
one such seat, any such seats for passengers being joined together in a single
structure.
(7) Every
seat belt, other than a disabled person's belt or a seat belt of a kind mentioned
in paragraph 4(c)(i) or (ii) above, provided
for any person in a vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be legibly
and permanently marked—
(a) if
the vehicle was first used before 1st April 1981 or if the belt is a child
restraint, with a British Standard mark or a designated approval mark; or

(b) in
any other case, with a designated approval mark.Provided this
paragraph shall not operate so as to invalidate the exception permitted in
paragraph (6).
(8) In this
regulation—
 “body-restraining seat belt”
 means a seat belt designed to provide
restraint for both the upper and lower parts of the trunk of the wearer in
the event of an accident to the vehicle;
 “British Standard mark”
 means a mark consisting of— 
(i) the specification number of one of the following British Standards
for Seat Belt Assemblies for Motor Vehicles, namely—
(a) if it is a seat belt for an adult, BS
3254; 1960 and BS AU 160a or 160b; or
(b) if it is a child restraint, BS 3254:1960,
BS AU 157 or 157a, BS AU 185, BS AU 186 or 186a, BS AU 202; and, in either
case,
(ii) the registered certification trade mark of
the British Standards Institution;
 “child restraint”
means a seat belt for the use of a young person which
is designed either to be fitted directly to a suitable anchorage or to be
used in conjunction with a seat belt for an adult and held in place by the
restraining action of that belt:  Provided that for the purposes of paragraph (2)
(c)(ii)(B) and (2)(c)(iii) it
means only such seat belts fitted directly to a suitable anchorage and excludes
belts marked with the specification numbers BS AU 185 and BS AU 186 or 186a.

 “designated approval mark”
 means
(a) if it is a seat belt other than a child restraint,
the marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4
of the Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 16 of Schedule 2
to those Regulations or the marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of those Regulations
and shown at item 23 and 23A in Schedule 4
to those Regulations, and
(b) if it is a child restraint, either of the markings
designated as approval marks by regulation 4
of those Regulations and shown at item 44 and 44A in Schedule 2
to those Regulations.
 “disabled person's belt”
 means a seat belt which has been specially
designed or adapted for use by an adult or young person suffering from some
physical defect or disability and which is intended for use solely by such
a person;
 “forward-facing seat”
means a seat which is attached to a vehicle so that
it faces towards the front of the vehicle in such a manner that a line passing
through the centre of both the front and the back of the seat is at an angle
of 30° or less to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle;
 “inertia reel belt”
means a three-point belt of either of the types required
for a front outboard seating position by paragraph 3.1.1. of Annex 1
to Community
Directive 77/541;
 “lap belt” means a seat belt which passes across the front of the wearer's pelvic
region;
 “seat” 
includes any part designed for the accommodation of one adult of a continuous
seat designed for the accommodation of more than one adult;
 “seat belt” means a belt intended to be worn by a person in a vehicle and designed
to prevent or lessen injury to its wearer in the event of an accident to the
vehicle and includes, in the case of a child restraint, any special chair
to which the belt is attached;
 “specified passenger's seat”
 means— 
(i) in the case of a vehicle which has one forward-facing
front seat alongside the driver's seat, that seat, and in the case of a vehicle
which has more than one such seat, the one furthest from the driver's seat;
or
(ii) if the vehicle normally has no seat which
is the specified passenger's seat under sub-paragraph (i) of this definition
the forward-facing front seat for a passenger which is foremost in the vehicle
and furthest from the driver's seat, unless there is a fixed partition separating
that seat from the space in front of it alongside the driver's seat; and
 “three-point belt”
means a seat belt which— 
(i) restrains the upper and lower parts of the
torso;
(ii) includes a lap belt;
(iii) is anchored at not less than three points; and
(iv) is designed for use by an adult.
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(1) This regulation
applies to every seat belt with which a motor vehicle is required to be provided
in accordance with regulation 47
and to the anchorages, fastenings, adjusting device and retracting mechanism
(if any) of every such seat belt.
(2) For the
purposes of this regulation the anchorages and anchorage points of a seat
belt shall, in the case of a seat which incorporates integral seat belt anchorages,
include the system by which the seat assembly itself is secured to the vehicle
structure.
(3) The anchorage
points provided for seat belts shall be used only as anchorages for the seat
belts for which they are intended to be used or capable of being used.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraph (5) below—
(a) all
load-bearing members of the vehicle structure or panelling within 30 cms of
each anchorage point shall be maintained in a sound condition and free from
serious corrosion, distortion or fracture;
(b) the
adjusting device and (if fitted) the retracting mechanism of the seat belt
shall be so maintained that the belt may be readily adjusted to the body of
the wearer, either automatically or manually, according to the design of the
device and (if fitted) the retracting mechanism;
(c) the
seat belt and its anchorages, fastenings and adjusting device shall be maintained
free from any obvious defect which would be likely to affect adversely the
performance by the seat belt of the function of restraining the body of the
wearer in the event of an accident to the vehicle;
(d) the
buckle or other fastening of the seat belt shall—
(i) 
be so maintained that the belt can be readily fastened or unfastened;
(ii) 
be kept free from any temporary or permanent obstruction; and
(iii) 
except in the case of a disabled person's seat belt, be readily accessible
to a person sitting in the seat for which the seat belt is provided;
(e) the
webbing or other material which forms the seat belt shall be maintained free
from cuts or other visible faults (as, for example, extensive fraying) which
would be likely to affect adversely the performance of the belt when under
stress;
(f) the
ends of every seat belt, other than a disabled person's seat belt, shall be
securely fastened to the anchorage points provided for them; and
(g) the
ends of every disabled person's seat belt shall, when the seat belt is being
used for the purpose for which it was designed and constructed, be securely
fastened either to some part of the structure of the vehicle or to the seat
which is being occupied by the person wearing the belt so that the body of
the person wearing the belt would be restrained in the event of an accident
to the vehicle.
(5) No requirement
specified in paragraph (4) above applies if the vehicle is being used—

(a) on
a journey after the start of which the requirement ceased to be complied with;
or
(b) after
the requirement ceased to be complied with and steps have been taken for such
compliance to be restored with all reasonable expedition.
(6) Expressions
which are used in this regulation and are defined in regulation 47 have the same meaning
in this regulation as they have in regulation 47.

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(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), this regulation applies to a wheeled goods vehicle
being either—
(a) a
motor vehicle with a maximum gross weight which exceeds 3500 kg and which
was first used on or after 1st April 1984; or
(b) a
trailer manufactured on or after 1st May 1983 with an unladen weight which
exceeds 1020 kg.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
motor vehicle which has a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph;
(b) a
motor car or a heavy motor car constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated
vehicle;
(c) an
agricultural trailer;
(d) engineering
plant;
(e) a
fire engine;
(f) an
agricultural motor vehicle;
(g) a
vehicle fitted at the rear with apparatus specially designed for spreading
material on a road;
(h) a
vehicle so constructed that it can be unloaded by part of the vehicle being
tipped rearwards;
(i) a
vehicle owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for naval, military
or air force purposes;
(j) a
vehicle to which no bodywork has been fitted and which is being driven or
towed—
(i) 
for the purpose of a quality or safety check by its manufacturer or a dealer
in, or distributor of, such vehicles; or
(ii) 
to a place where, by previous arrangement, bodywork is to be fitted or work
preparatory to the fitting of bodywork is to be carried out; or
(iii) 
by previous arrangement to premises of a dealer in, or distributor of, such
vehicles;
(k) a
vehicle which is being driven or towed to a place where by previous arrangement
a device is to be fitted so that it complies with this regulation;
(l) a
vehicle specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, to carry
other vehicles loaded onto it from the rear;
(m) a
trailer specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, to carry
round timber, beams or girders, being items of exceptional length;
(n) a
vehicle fitted with a tail lift so constructed that the lift platform forms
part of the floor of the vehicle and this part has a length of at least 1
m measured parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle;
(o) a
trailer having a base or centre in a country outside Great Britain from which
it normally starts its journeys, provided that a period of not more than 12
months has elapsed since the vehicle was last brought into Great Britain;

(p) a
vehicle specially designed, and not merely adapted, for the carriage and mixing
of liquid concrete;
(q) a
vehicle designed and used solely for the delivery of coal by means of a special
conveyor which is carried on the vehicle and when in use is fitted to the
rear of the vehicle so as to render its being equipped with a rear under-run
protective device impracticable; or
(r) an
agricultural trailed appliance.
(3) Subject
to the provisions of paragraphs (4), (5) and (6), every vehicle to which this
regulation applies shall be equipped with a rear under-run protective device.

(4) A vehicle
to which this regulation applies and which is fitted with a tail lift, bodywork
or other part which renders its being equipped with a rear under-run protective
device impracticable shall instead be equipped with one or more devices which
do not protrude beyond the overall width of the vehicle (excluding any part
of the device or the devices) and which comply with the following requirements—

(a) where
more than one device is fitted, not more than 50 cm shall lie between one
device and the device next to it;
(b) not
more than 30 cm shall lie between the outermost end of a device nearest to
the outermost part of the vehicle to which it is fitted and a longitudinal
plane passing through the outer end of the rear axle of the vehicle on the
same side of the vehicle or, in a case where the vehicle is fitted with more
than one rear axle, through the outer end of the widest rear axle on the same
side of the vehicle, and paragraph II.5.4.2 in the Annex
 to Community Directive 79/490 shall
not have effect in a case where this requirement is met; and
(c) the
device or, where more than one device is fitted, all the devices together,
shall have the characteristics specified in paragraphs II.5.4.5.1 to II.5.4.5.5.2
in the Annex to the said Directive save—

(i) 
as provided in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above;
(ii) 
that for the reference in paragraph II.5.4.5.1
in that Annex to 30 cm there is substituted a reference to 35 cm; and
(iii) 
that the distance of 40 cm specified in paragraph II.5.4.5
in that Annex may be measured exclusive of the said tail-lift, bodywork or
other part.
(5) The provisions
of paragraph (3) shall have effect so that in the case of—
(a) a
vehicle which is fitted with a demountable body, the characteristics specified
in paragraph II.5.4.2 in the Annex
to the said Directive have effect as if the reference to 10 cm were a reference
to 30 cm and as if in paragraph II.5.4.5.1
the reference to 30 cm were a reference to 35 cm; and
(b) a
trailer with a single axle or two close-coupled axles, the height of 55 cm
referred to in paragraph II.5.4.5.1
in that Annex is measured when the coupling of the trailer to the vehicle
by which it is drawn is at the height recommended by the manufacturer of the
trailer.
(6) Instead
of complying with paragraphs (3) to (5) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 79/490.
(7) In this
regulation—
 “rear under-run protective device”
 means a device within the description
given in paragraph II.5.4 in the Annex
 to Community Directive 79/490.

50 
Every device fitted to a vehicle in compliance with the requirements
of regulation 49
shall at all times when the vehicle is on a road be maintained free from any
obvious defect which would be likely to affect adversely the performance of
the device in the function of giving resistance in the event of an impact
from the rear.
51 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), this regulation applies to a wheeled goods vehicle
being—
(a) a
motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1984 with a maximum gross weight
which exceeds 3500 kg; or
(b) a
trailer manufactured on or after 1st May 1983 with an unladen weight which
exceeds 1020 kg; or
(c) a
semi-trailer manufactured before 1st May 1983 which has a relevant plate showing
a gross weight exceeding 26,000 kg and which forms part of an articulated
vehicle with a relevant train weight exceeding 32,520 kg.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
motor vehicle which has a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph;
(b) an
agricultural trailer;
(c) engineering
plant;
(d) a
fire engine;
(e) an
agricultural motor vehicle;
(f) a
vehicle so constructed that it can be unloaded by part of the vehicle being
tipped sideways or rearwards;
(g) a
vehicle owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for naval, military
or air force purposes;
(h) a
vehicle to which no bodywork has been fitted and which is being driven or
towed—
(i) 
for the purpose of a quality or safety check by its manufacturer or a dealer
in, or distributor of, such vehicles;
(ii) 
to a place where, by previous arrangement, bodywork is to be fitted or work
preparatory to the fitting of bodywork is to be carried out; or
(iii) 
by previous arrangement to premises of a dealer in, or distributor of, such
vehicles;
(i) a
vehicle which is being driven or towed to a place where by previous arrangement
a sideguard is to be fitted so that it complies with this regulation;
(j) a
refuse vehicle;
(k) a
trailer specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, to carry
round timber, beams or girders, being items of exceptional length;
(l) a
motor car or a heavy motor car constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated
vehicle;
(m) a
vehicle specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, to carry
other vehicles loaded onto it from the front or the rear;
(n) a
trailer with a load platform—
(i) 
no part of any edge of which is more than 60 mm inboard from the tangential
plane; and
(ii) 
the upper surface of which is not more than 750 mm from the ground throughout
that part of its length under which a sideguard would have to be fitted in
accordance with paragraph (5)(d) to (g) if this exemption did not apply to it;
(o) a
trailer having a base or centre in a country outside Great Britain from which
it normally starts its journeys, provided that a period of not more than 12
months has elapsed since the vehicle was last brought into Great Britain;
or
(p) an
agricultural trailed appliance.
(3) Every
vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be securely fitted with a sideguard
to give protection on any side of the vehicle where—
(a) if
it is a semi-trailer, the distance between the transverse planes passing through
the centre of its foremost axle and through the centre of its king pin or,
in the case of a vehicle having more than one king pin, the rearmost one,
exceeds 4.5 m; or
(b) if
it is any other vehicle, the distance between the centres of any two consecutive
axles exceeds 3 m.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraphs (6) and (7), a sideguard with which a vehicle is by
this regulation required to be fitted shall comply with all the specifications
listed in paragraph (5).
(5) Those
specifications are—
(a) the
outermost surface of every sideguard shall be smooth, essentially rigid and
either flat or horizontally corrugated, save that—
(i) 
any part of the surface may overlap another provided that the overlapping
edges face rearwards or downwards;
(ii) 
a gap not exceeding 25 mm measured longitudinally may exist between any two
adjacent parts of the surface provided that the foremost edge of the rearward
part does not protrude outboard of the rearmost edge of the forward part;
and
(iii) 
domed heads of bolts or rivets may protrude beyond the surface to a distance
not exceeding 10 mm;
(b) no
part of the lowest edge of a sideguard shall be more than 550 mm above the
ground when the vehicle to which it is fitted is on level ground and, in the
case of a semi-trailer, when its load platform is horizontal;
(c) in
a case specified in an item in column 2 of the Table the highest edge of a
sideguard shall be as specified in that item in column 3;
(d) the
distance between the rearmost edge of a sideguard and the transverse plane
passing through the foremost part of the tyre fitted to the wheel of the vehicle
nearest to it shall not exceed 300 mm;
(e) the
distance between the foremost edge of a sideguard fitted to a semi-trailer
and a transverse plane passing through the centre of the vehicle's king pin
or, if the vehicle has more than one king pin, the rearmost one, shall not
exceed 3 m;
(f) the
foremost edge of a sideguard fitted to a semi-trailer with landing legs shall,
as well as complying with sub-paragraph (e),
not be more than 250 mm to the rear of a transverse plane passing through
the centre of the leg nearest to that edge;
(g) the
distance between the foremost edge of a sideguard fitted to a vehicle other
than a semi-trailer and a transverse plane passing through the rearmost part
of the tyre fitted to the wheel of the vehicle nearest to it shall not exceed
300 mm if the vehicle is a motor vehicle and 500 mm if the vehicle is a trailer;

(h) the
external edges of a sideguard shall be rounded at a radius of at least 2.5
mm;
(i) no
sideguard shall be more than 30 mm inboard from the tangential plane;
(j) no
sideguard shall project beyond the longitudinal plane from which, in the absence
of a sideguard, the vehicle's overall width would fall to be measured;
(k) every
sideguard shall cover an area extending to at least 100 mm upwards from its
lowest edge 100 mm downwards from its highest edge, and 100 mm rearwards and
inwards from its foremost edge, and no sideguard shall have a vertical gap
measuring more than 300 mm nor any vertical surface measuring less than 100
mm; and
(l) except
in the case of a vehicle described in paragraph (1)
(c) every sideguard shall be capable of withstanding a force of
2 kilonewtons applied perpendicularly to any part of its surface by the centre
of a ram the face of which is circular and not more than 220 mm in diameter,
and during such application—
(i) 
no part of the sideguard shall be deflected by more than 150 mm, and
(ii) 
no part of the sideguard which is less than 250 mm from its rearmost part
shall be deflected by more than 30 mm.

TABLE(regulation 51(5))

1 2
 3
Item Case Requirement
about highest edge of sideguard
1 Where the floor of
the vehicle to which the sideguard is fitted—
(i) extends laterally outside the tangential plane;
(ii) is not more than 1.85 m from the ground;(iii)
extends laterally over the whole of the length of the sideguard with which
the vehicle is required by this regulation to be fitted; and
(iv) is wholly covered at its edge by a side-rave the lower edge of which
is not more than 150 mm below the underside of the floor. Not more than 350 mm below the lower edge of the side-rave.

2 Where the floor of the vehicle to which the sideguard is fitted—
(i) extends laterally outside the tangential plane;
and(ii) does not comply with all of the provisions
specified in sub-paragraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv) in item 1 above,and any part of the structure of the vehicle is cut within 1.85
m of the ground by the tangential plane. 
Not more than 350 mm below the structure of the vehicle where it is cut by
the tangential plane.
3 Where—(i) no part of
the structure of the vehicle is cut within 1.85 m of the ground by the tangential
plane; and(ii) the upper surface of the load carrying
structure of the vehicle is less than 1.5 m from the ground. Not less than the height of the upper surface of the load
carrying structure of the vehicle.

4 A vehicle specially designed, and not
merely adapted, for the carriage and mixing of liquid concrete. Not less than 1 m from the ground.
5 Any other
case. Not less than 1.5 m from the ground.

(6) The provisions
of paragraph (4) apply—
(a) in
the case of an extendible trailer when it is, by virtue of the extending mechanism,
extended to a length greater than its minimum, so as not to require, in respect
of any additional distance solely attributable to the extension, compliance
with the specifications mentioned in paragraph (5)
(d) to (g);
(b) in
the case of a vehicle designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, to
be fitted with a demountable body or to carry a container, when it is not
fitted with a demountable body or carrying such a container as if it were
fitted with such a body or carrying such a container; and
(c) only
so far as it is practicable in the case of—
(i) 
a vehicle designed solely for the carriage of a fluid substance in a closed
tank which is permanently fitted to the vehicle and provided with valves and
hose or pipe connections for loading or unloading; and
(ii) 
a vehicle which requires additional stability during loading or unloading
or while being used for operations for which it is designed or adapted and
is fitted on one or both sides with an extendible device to provide such stability.

(7) In the
case of a motor vehicle to which this regulation applies and which is of a
type which was required to be approved by the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles
Regulations before 1st October 1983—
(a) if
the bodywork of the vehicle covers the whole of the area specified as regards
a sideguard in paragraph (5)(b), (c), (d) and (g) above the other provisions of that paragraph
do not apply to that vehicle; and
(b) if
the bodywork of the vehicle covers only part of that area the part of that
area which is not so covered shall be fitted with a sideguard which complies
with the provisions of paragraph (5) above save that there shall not be a
gap between—
(i) 
the rearmost edge of the sideguard or the rearmost part of the bodywork (whichever
is furthest to the rear) and the transverse plane mentioned in paragraph (5)(d) of more than 300 mm;
(ii) 
the foremost edge of the sideguard or the foremost part of the bodywork (whichever
is furthest to the front) and the transverse plane mentioned in paragraph
(5)(g) of more than 300 mm; or
(iii) 
any vertical or sloping edge of any part of the bodywork in question and the
edge of the sideguard immediately forwards or rearwards thereof of more than
25 mm measured horizontally.
(8) In this
regulation
 “relevant plate”
means a Ministry plate, where fitted, and in other cases
a plate fitted in accordance with regulation 66;

 “relevant train weight”
 means the train weight shown in column
2 of the Ministry plate, where fitted, and in other cases the maximum train
weight shown at item 8 of the plate fitted in accordance with regulation 66; and

 “tangential plane”,
in relation to a sideguard, means the vertical plane
tangential to the external face of the outermost part of the tyre (excluding
any distortion caused by the weight of the vehicle) fitted to the outermost
wheel at the rear and on the same side of the vehicle.
52 
Every sideguard fitted to a vehicle in compliance with the requirements
of regulation 51
shall at all times when the vehicle is on a road be maintained free from any
obvious defect which would be likely to affect adversely its effectiveness.

53 

(1) Subject
to paragraph (2), no mascot, emblem or other ornamental object shall be carried
by a motor vehicle first used on or after 1st October 1937 in any position
where it is likely to strike any person with whom the vehicle may collide
unless the mascot is not liable to cause injury to such person by reason of
any projection thereon.
(2) Instead
of complying with the requirements of paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 74/483 or 79/488 or ECE Regulation 26.01.
K
54 

(1) Every
vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine shall be fitted with an
exhaust system including a silencer and the exhaust gases from the engine
shall not escape into the atmosphere without first passing through the silencer.

(2) Every
exhaust system and silencer shall be maintained in good and efficient working
order and shall not be altered so as to increase the noise made by the escape
of exhaust gases.
(3) Instead
of complying with paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 77/212, 81/334, 84/372 or 84/424 or, in the case of a motor
cycle other than a moped, 78/1015.

(4) In this
regulation 
“moped” has the meaning given
to it in paragraph (5) of Schedule 9.

55 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2) and regulation 59,
this regulation applies to every wheeled motor vehicle having at least three
wheels and first used on or after 1st October 1983 which is—
(a) a
vehicle, not falling within sub-paragraph (b)
or (c), with or without bodywork;
(b) a
vehicle not falling within sub-paragraph (c)
which is—
(i) 
engineering plant;
(ii) 
a locomotive other than an agricultural motor vehicle;
(iii) 
a motor tractor other than an industrial tractor or an agricultural motor
vehicle;
(iv) 
a public works vehicle;
(v) 
a works truck; or
(vi) 
a refuse vehicle; or
(c) a
vehicle which—
(i) 
has a compression ignition engine;
(ii) 
is so constructed or adapted that the driving power of the engine is, or by
appropriate use of the controls can be, transmitted to all wheels of the vehicle;
and
(iii) 
falls within category I.1.1., I.1.2, or I.1.3 specified in Article 1 of Community Directive 77/212.

(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
motorcycle with a sidecar attached;
(b) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is first used before 1st June 1986 or which
is not driven at more than 20 mph;
(c) an
industrial tractor;
(d) a
road roller;
(e) a
vehicle specially constructed, and not merely adapted, for the purposes of
fighting fires or salvage from fires at or in the vicinity of airports, and
having an engine power exceeding 220 kW;
(f) a
vehicle which runs on rails; or
(g) a
vehicle manufactured by Leyland Vehicles Ltd. and known as the Atlantean Bus,
if first used before 1st October 1984.
(3) Save as
provided in paragraphs (4) and (5), every vehicle to which this regulation
applies shall be so constructed that it complies with the requirements set
out in item 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the Table; a vehicle complies with those requirements
if—
(a) its
sound level does not exceed the relevant limit specified in column 2(a), (b) or (c), as the case may be, in the relevant item when
measured under the conditions specified in column 3 in that item and by the
method specified in column 4 in that item using the apparatus prescribed in
paragraph (6); and
(b) in
the case of a vehicle referred to in paragraph 1(a)
 (other than one having less than four wheels or a maximum speed
not exceeding 25 km/h) or 1(c), the device
designed to reduce the exhaust noise meets the requirements specified in column
5 in that item.

TABLE(regulation 55(3))

1 
2 3 4 5
 Limits
of sound level

Item (a) Vehicle referred
to in paragraph (1)(a) (b) Vehicle referred to in paragraph (1)(b) (c) Vehicle referred to in paragraph (1)(c) Conditions of measurement
 Method
of measurement 
Requirements for exhaust device
1 Limits specified
in paragraph I.1 of the Annex
to Community
Directive 77/212. 89dB(A) 82dB(A) Conditions specified in paragraph I.3 of the Annex
to Community
Directive 77/212 Method specified in paragraph I.4.1 of the Annex
to Community
Directive 77/212 Requirements specified in heading II of the Annex to Community Directive 77/212
(except paragraphs II.2
and II.5).

2 Limits specified in paragraph 5.2.2.1 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 81/334. 89dB(A) 82dB(A) Conditions specified in paragraph 5.2.2.3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 81/334. Method specified in paragraph 5.2.2.4 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 81/334. Interpretation of results
as specified in paragraph 5.2.2.5
of that Annex. Requirements specified
in section 3 and paragraphs 5.1
and 5.3.1 of
Annex 1 to Community Directive 81/334.
3 
Limits specified in paragraph 5.2.2.1 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/372 89dB(A) 82dB(A) Conditions specified in paragraph 5.2.2.3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/372 Method specified in paragraph 5.2.2.4 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/372, except that vehicles with
5 or more forward gears and a maximum power to maximum gross weight ratio
not less than 75 kW per 1000 kg may be tested in 3rd gear only. Interpretation
of results as specified in paragraph 5.2.2.5
of that Annex. Requirements specified
in section 3 and paragraphs 5.1
and 5.3.1 of
Annex I to Community Directive 84/372.
4 
Limits specified in paragraph 5.2.2.1 of the Annex
I to Community Directive 84/424 Vehicles with engine power—–less than 75kW
– 84dB(A)–not less than 75kW
–86dB(A) Limits specified in paragraph 5.2.2.1 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/424. Conditions specified in paragraph 5.2.2.3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/424 Method specified in paragraph 5.2.2.4 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 84/424, except that vehicles with
5 or more forward gears and a maximum power to maximum gross weight ratio
not less than 75 kW per 1000 kg may be tested in 3rd gear only. Interpretation
of results as specified in paragraph 5.2.2.5
of that Annex Requirements specified
in section 3 and paragraphs 5.1 and 5.3.1 of Annex
I to Community Directive 84/424.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraph (5), paragraph (3) applies to every vehicle to which
this regulation applies and which is first used on or after 1st April 1990,
unless it is equipped with 5 or more forward gears and has a maximum power
to maximum gross weight ratio not less than 75 kW per 1000 kg, and is of a
type in respect of which a type approval certificate has been issued under
the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations as if, for the reference to
items 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the Table there were substituted a reference to item
4 of the Table.
(5) Paragraph
(4) does not apply to a vehicle in category 5.2.2.1.3 as defined in Annex I to Directive 84/424
and equipped with a compression ignition engine, a vehicle in category 5.2.2.1.4
as defined in that Annex, or a vehicle referred to in paragraph 1(b) unless it is first used on or after 1st April
1991.
(6) The apparatus
prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 3(a)
and regulations 56(2)(a) and 57(2)(a)
is a sound level meter of the type described in Publication No. 179 of the
International Electrotechnical Commission, in either its first or second edition,
a sound level meter complying with the specification for Type 0 or Type 1
in Publication No. 651 (1979) “Sound Level Meters” of the International
Electrotechnical Commission, or a sound level meter complying with the specifications
of the British Standard Number BS 5969:1981 which came into effect on 29th
May 1981.
(7) Instead
of complying with the preceding provisions of this regulation a vehicle may
comply at the time of its first use with Community Directive 77/212, 81/334, 84/372 or 84/424.
56 

(1) Save as
provided in regulation 59,
this regulation applies to every wheeled vehicle first used on or after 1st
April 1983 being an agricultural motor vehicle or an industrial tractor, other
than—
(a) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is first used on or after 1st June 1986 and
which is driven at more than 20 mph; or
(b) a
road roller.
(2) Every
vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be so constructed—
(a) that
its sound level does not exceed—
(i) 
if it is a vehicle with engine power of less than 65kW, 89 dB(A);
(ii) 
if it is a vehicle with engine power of 65kW or more, and first used before
1st October 1991, 92 dB(A); or
(iii) 
if it is a vehicle with engine power of 65kW or more, and first used on or
after 1st October 1991, 89 dB(A),when measured under the conditions specified in paragraph I.3 of Annex VI of Community Directive 74/151
by the method specified in paragraph I.4.1
of that Annex using the apparatus prescribed in regulation 55(6);
and
(b) that
the device designed to reduce the exhaust noise meets the requirements specified
in paragraph II.1
of that Annex and, if fibrous absorbent material is used, the requirements
specified in paragraphs II.4.1 to II.4.3
of that Annex.
57 

(1) Save as
provided in regulation 59,
paragraph (2) of this regulation applies to every motor vehicle first used
on or after 1st April 1983 which is—
(a) a
moped; or
(b) a
two-wheeled motorcycle, whether or not with sidecar attached, which is not
a moped.
(2) Every
vehicle to which this paragraph applies shall be so constructed that—

(a) its
sound level does not exceed the relevant limit specified in column 2(a) or (b), as
the case may be, in item 1 of the Table when measured under the conditions
specified in column 3 in that item by the method specified in column 4 in
that item using the apparatus prescribed in regulation 55(6);
and
(b) the
device designed to reduce the exhaust noise meets the requirements specified
in column 5.
(3) The silencer
which forms part of the exhaust system of a motorcycle first used on or after
1st January 1985 shall be either—
(a) that
with which the vehicle was fitted when it was manufactured; or
(b) clearly
and indelibly marked with either—
(i) 
the British Standard marking indicating that it has been tested in accordance
with test 2; or
(ii) 
a reference to its make and type specified by the manufacturer of the vehicle.

(4) A motor
cycle shall not be used on a road if it is fitted with an exhaust system any
part of which is marked with the words “NOT FOR ROAD USE” or words
to the like effect.
(5) Instead
of complying with the provisions of paragraph (2), a vehicle referred to in
paragraph (1)(b) may comply at the time
of its first use with Community Directive 78/1015.

(6) In this
regulation—
 “British Standard marking”
 means a marking specified in paragraph 6.1 of the British Standard
Specification for replacement motorcycle and moped exhaust systems, which
came into effect on 30th September 1983, issued by the British Standards Institution
under reference number BS AU 193:1983, and “test 2”
means the test so described in that Specification and
therein specified; and
 “moped” 
has the meaning given to it in paragraph 5 of Schedule 9.


TABLE(regulation 57(2))

1 2 
3 4 5
 Limits
of sound level

Item Vehicle referred
to in paragraph (1)(a) Vehicle referred to in paragraph (1)(b) Conditions of measurement
 Method
of measurement 
Requirements for exhaust device
1 73dB(A) Limits specified in paragraph 2.1.1 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 78/1015 Conditions specified in paragraph 2.1.3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 78/1015 Method specified in paragraph 2.1.4 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 78/1015. Interpretation of results
as in paragraphs 2.1.5.2, 2.1.5.3 and 2.1.5.4
 of that Annex 
Requirements as specified in paragraph 3 of Annex I
to Community
Directive 78/1015 except for sub-paragraph 3.2.
58 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2) and in regulation 59,
every wheeled motor vehicle which was first used on or after 1st April 1970
and which is not subject to regulations 55, 56 or 57
shall be so constructed that the sound level (A weighting) in decibels does
not exceed the maximum permitted level shown in column 2 of the Table for
the relevant class of vehicle shown in column 1, when the noise emitted by
it is measured under the specified conditions using the prescribed apparatus.

(2) A vehicle
to which this regulation applies is not required to comply with paragraph
(1) if at the time of its first use it complied with Community Directive 70/157, 73/350 or 77/212 or, in the case of an agricultural
motor vehicle, 74/151,
or if it is—
(a) a
road roller;
(b) a
vehicle specially constructed, and not merely adapted, for the purposes of
fighting fires or salvage from fires at or in the vicinity of airports, and
having an engine power exceeding 220 kW;
(c) a
vehicle propelled by a compression ignition engine and which is of a type
in respect of which a type approval certificate has been issued under the
Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations;
(d) a
motorcycle first used on or after 1st October 1980, with an engine capacity
not exceeding 50 cc which complies with the requirements specified in regulation 57(2); or
(e) an
agricultural motor vehicle manufactured on or after 7th February 1975 which
complies with the requirements specified in regulation 56(2).

(3) The definition
of sound level (A weighting) in decibels contained in clause 2 of the British
Standard Specification for Sound Level Meters published by the British Standards
Institution on 7th September 1962 under the number BS 3539: 1962, as amended
by Amendment Slip No. 1, numbered AMD22 and published on 1st July 1968, applies
for the purposes of this regulation.
(4) In this
regulation, “the specified conditions” means the method described by the British Standard Method for the Measurement
of Noise Emitted by Motor Vehicles published on 24th June 1966 under the number
BS 3425:1966.
(5) In this
regulation “the prescribed apparatus” means a noise meter— 
(a) which is in good working order and complies with the
requirements laid down for vehicle noise meters in Part I of the said British Standard
Specification numbered BS 3539:1962, as amended by the said Amendment Slip
No. 1;

(b) 
which has, not more than 12 months before the date of the measurement made
in accordance with paragraph (1), undergone all the tests for checking calibration
applicable in accordance with the Appendix to the said British Standard Specification;
and

(c) 
in respect of which there has been issued by the National Physical Laboratory,
the British Standards Institution or the Secretary of State a certificate
recording the date on which as a result of those tests the meter was found
to comply with the requirements of clauses 8 and 9 of the said British Standard
Specification.

TABLE(regulation 58(1))

1 2
 3
Item Class
of vehicle Maximum permitted sound level
in dB(A)
1
 Motor cycle of which the cylinder capacity
of the engine does not exceed 50 cc 
77
2 Motor cycle of which the cylinder capacity of the engine exceeds
50 cc but does not exceed 125 cc 82
3 
Motor cycle of which the cylinder capacity of the engine exceeds 125 cc 86
4 Goods vehicle to
which regulation 66
applies and which is equipped with a plate complying with the requirements
of regulation 66
and showing particulars of a maximum gross weight of more than 3560 kg 89

5 Motor car not being a goods vehicle
of the kind described in item 4 above 
85
6 Motor tractor 89
7 
Locomotive 89
8 Agricultural
motor vehicle 89
9 Works
truck 89
10 Engineering plant
 89
11 Passenger vehicle constructed
for the carriage of more than 12 passengers exclusive of the driver 89

12 Any other passenger vehicle 84

13 Any other vehicle 85
59 
Regulations 55, 56, 57(2) and 58
do not apply to a motor vehicle which is—
(a) proceeding
to a place where, by previous arrangement—
(i) noise
emitted by it is about to be measured for the purpose of ascertaining whether
or not the vehicle complies with such of those provisions as apply to it;
or
(ii) 
the vehicle is about to be mechanically adjusted, modified or equipped for
the purpose of securing that it so complies; or
(b) returning
from such a place immediately after the noise has been so measured.
60 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), every wheeled motor vehicle first used on or after
1st April 1974 which is propelled by a spark ignition engine shall comply
at the time of its first use with Community Directive 72/245
or ECE Regulation 10 or 10.01
or, in the case of an agricultural motor vehicle, Community Directive 75/322.1

(2) This regulation
does not apply to a vehicle constructed or assembled by a person not ordinarily
engaged in the trade or business of manufacturing vehicles of that description,
but nothing in this paragraph affects the application to such vehicles of
the Wireless Telegraphy (Control of
Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Regulations 1973.

61 

(1) Subject
to paragraph (4), every vehicle shall be constructed so as not to emit any
avoidable smoke or avoidable visible vapour.
(2) Every
motor vehicle using solid fuel shall be fitted with—
(a) a
tray or shield to prevent ashes and cinders from falling onto the road; and

(b) an
efficient appliance to prevent any emission of sparks or grit.
(3) Subject
to paragraph (4) and to the exemptions specified in an item in column 4 of
the Table, every wheeled vehicle of a class specified in that item in column
2 shall be constructed so as to comply with the requirements specified in
that item in column 3.
(4) Instead
of complying with such provisions of paragraph (1) and items 1, 2 and 3 in
the Table as apply to it, a vehicle may at the time of its first use comply—

(a) if
it is propelled by a compression ignition engine, with Community Directive 72/306 (or,
in the case of an agricultural vehicle, 77/537)
or ECE Regulation 24.01, 24.02 or 24.03;
or
(b) if
it is propelled by a spark ignition engine, with Community Directive 78/665
or 83/351 or ECE Regulation 15.03 or 15.04.

(5) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road any motor vehicle—

(a) from
which any smoke, visible vapour, grit, sparks, ashes, cinders or oily substance
is emitted if that emission causes, or is likely to cause, damage to any property
or injury or danger to any person who is, or who may reasonably be expected
to be, on the road;
(b) which
is subject to the requirement in item 2 of the Table (whether or not it is
deemed to comply with that requirement by virtue of paragraph (4)), if the
fuel injection equipment, the engine speed governor or any other parts of
the engine by which it is propelled have been altered or adjusted so as to
increase the emission of smoke; or
(c) which
is subject to the requirement in item 1 of the Table if the device mentioned
in column 2 in that item is used while the vehicle is in motion.
(6) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a motor vehicle to which
item 3 of the Table applies unless it is so maintained that the means specified
in column 3 of that item are in good working order.

TABLE(regulation 61(3))

1
 2 3 4
Item Class of vehicle Requirements Exemptions
1 Vehicles propelled by a
compression ignition engine and equipped with a device designed to facilitate
starting the engine by causing it to be supplied with excess fuel. Provision shall be made to ensure the device cannot
readily be operated by a person inside the vehicle. 
(a) a work truck;
(b) a vehicle on which the device is so designed
and maintained that— 
(i) its use after the engine has started
cannot cause the engine to be supplied with excess fuel, or
(ii) it does not cause any increase in the
smoke or visible vapour emitted from the vehicle.
2 
Vehicles first used on or after 1st April 1973 and propelled by a compression
ignition engine. The engine of the vehicle
shall be of a type for which there has been issued by a person authorised
by the Secretary of State a type test certificate in accordance with the British
Standard Specification for the Performance of Diesel Engines for Road Vehicles
published on 19th May 1971 under number BS AU 141a: 1971. In the case of an
agricultural motor vehicle (other than one which is first used after 1st June
1986 and is driven at more than 20 mph), an industrial tractor, a works truck
or engineering plant, for the purposes of that Specification as to the exhaust
gas opacity, measurements shall be made with the engine running at 80% of
its full load over the speed range from maximum speed down to the speed at
which maximum torque occurs as declared by the manufacturer of the vehicle
for those purposes. 
(a) a vehicle manufactured before 1st April 1973 and propelled
by an engine known as the Perkins 6.354 engine;(b) a vehicle propelled by an engine having not more
than 2 cylinders and being an agricultural motor vehicle (other than one which
is first used on or after 1st June 1986 and which is driven at more that 20
mph), an industrial tractor, a works truck or engineering plant.
3 
Vehicles first used on or after 1st January 1972 and propelled by a spark
ignition engine other than a 2-stroke engine. 
The engine shall be equipped with means sufficient to ensure that, while the
engine is running, any vapours or gases in the engine crank case, or in any
other part of the engine to which vapours or gases may pass from that case,
are prevented, so far as is reasonably practicable, from escaping into the
atmosphere otherwise than through the combustion chamber of the engine. (a) a two-wheeled
motor cycle with or without a sidecar attached;(b) a vehicle to which item 4 below applies.
4 
Vehicles first used on or after 1st October 1982 and propelled by a spark
ignition engine. The vehicle shall comply
at the time of its first use with Community Directive 78/665
or 83/351 or ECE Regulation 15.03 or 15.04.
 (a)
a vehicle with a maximum gross weight exceeding 3500 kg;(b) a vehicle which has only two wheels;(c) a vehicle with an unladen
weight of less than 400 kg;
(d) a vehicle with less than 4 wheels and having a maximum speed
not exceeding 30 mph.
62 

(1) No wheeled
vehicle first used after 15th January 1931 shall be equipped with any closet
or urinal which can discharge directly on to a road.
(2) Every
tank into which a closet or urinal with which a vehicle is equipped empties,
and every closet or urinal which does not empty into a tank, shall contain
chemicals which are non-inflammable and non-irritant and provide an efficient
germicide.
63 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (4), this regulation applies to—
(a) invalid
carriages;
(b) heavy
motor cars, motor cars and motor cycles, not being agricultural motor vehicles
or pedestrian-controlled vehicles;
(c) agricultural
motor vehicles driven at more than 20 mph; and
(d) trailers.

(2) Subject
to paragraphs (3) and (5), every vehicle to which this regulation applies
shall be equipped with wings or other similar fittings to catch, so far as
practicable, mud or water thrown up by the rotation of its wheels or tracks.

(3) The requirements
specified in paragraph (2) apply, in the case of a trailer with more than
two wheels, only in respect of the rearmost two wheels.
(4) Those
requirements do not apply in respect of—
(a) a
works truck;
(b) a
living van;
(c) a
water cart;
(d) an
agricultural trailer drawn by a motor vehicle which is not driven at a speed
in excess of 20 mph;
(e) an
agricultural trailed appliance;
(f) an
agricultural trailed appliance conveyor;
(g) a
broken down vehicle;
(h) a
heavy motor car, motor car or trailer in an unfinished condition which is
proceeding to a workshop for completion;
(i) a
trailer used for or in connection with the carriage of round timber and the
rear wheels of any heavy motor car or motor car drawing a semi-trailer so
used; or
(j) a
trailer drawn by a motor vehicle the maximum speed of which is restricted
to 20 mph or less under Schedule 6
to the 1984 Act.
(5) Instead
of complying with paragraph (2) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 78/549.
64 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), this regulation applies to every wheeled goods
vehicle which is—
(a) a
motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1986 having a maximum gross
weight exceeding 12,000 kg;
(b) a
trailer manufactured on or after 1st May 1985 having a maximum gross weight
exceeding 3500 kg; or
(c) a
trailer, whenever manufactured, having a maximum gross weight exceeding 16,000
kg and 2 or more axles.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) a
motor vehicle so constructed that the driving power of its engine is, or can
by use of its controls be, transmitted to all the wheels on at least one front
axle and on at least one rear axle;
(b) a
motor vehicle of which no part which lies within the specified area is less
than 400 mm vertically above the ground when the vehicle is standing on reasonably
flat ground;
(c) a
works truck;
(d) a
works trailer;
(e) a
broken down vehicle;
(f) a
motor vehicle which has a maximum speed not exceeding 30 mph;
(g) a
vehicle of a kind specified in sub-paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e),
(f), (g), (h), (j), (k), (o) or (p) of regulation 51(2);

(h) a
vehicle specially designed, and not merely adapted, for the carriage and mixing
of liquid concrete; or
(i) a
vehicle which is being driven or towed to a place where by previous arrangement
a device is to be fitted so that it complies with the requirements specified
in paragraph (3).
(3) A vehicle
to which this regulation applies and which is of a class specified in an item
in column 2 of the Table shall not be used on a road on or after the date
specified in column 3 in that item, unless it is fitted in relation to the
wheels on each of its axles, with such containment devices as satisfy the
technical requirements and other provisions about containment devices specified
in the British Standard Specification, provided that in the case of a containment
device fitted before 1st January 1985 the said requirements shall be deemed
to be complied with if that containment device substantially conforms to those
requirements.

TABLE(regulation 64(3))

1 
2 3
Item Class of Vehicle 
Date
1 A trailer manufactured before 1st January 1975 1st October 1987
2 A trailer manufactured
on or after 1st January 1975 but before 1st May 1985 1st October 1986

3 A trailer manufactured on or after
1st May 1985 1st May 1985
4 
A motor vehicle 1st April 1986
(4) In this
regulation—
 “the British Standard Specification”
 means the British Standard Specification
for Spray Reducing Devices for Heavy Goods Vehicles published under the reference
BS AU 200: Part I: 1984 and BS AU 200: Part 2: 1984 and references to a “containment
device” are references to the device so described in the British Standard
Specification;
 “the specified area”
means the area formed by the overall length of the vehicle
and the middle 80% of the shortest distance between the inner edges of any
two wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle (such distance being ascertained
when the vehicle is fitted with suitable tyres inflated to a pressure recommended
by the manufacturer, but excluding any bulging of the tyres near the ground)
.
(5) Nothing
in this regulation derogates from any requirement specified in regulation 63.
65 
Every part of every containment device with which a vehicle is
required to be fitted by the provisions of regulation 64
shall at all times when the vehicle is on a road be maintained free from any
obvious defect which would be likely to affect adversely the effectiveness
of the device.
PART III
66 

(1) This regulation
applies to—
(a) a wheeled
heavy motor car or motor car first used on or after 1st January 1968 not being—

(i) a dual-purpose
vehicle;
(ii) an agricultural
motor vehicle;
(iii) a
works truck;
(iv) a pedestrian-controlled
vehicle; or
(v) save as
provided in sub-paragraph (b) below, a
passenger vehicle;
(b) a bus (whether
or not it is an articulated bus) first used on or after 1st April 1982;
(c) a wheeled
locomotive or motor tractor first used on or after 1st April 1973 not being—

(i) an agricultural
motor vehicle;
(ii) an industrial
tractor;
(iii) a
works truck;
(iv) engineering
plant; or
(v) a pedestrian-controlled
vehicle;
(d) a wheeled
trailer manufactured on or after 1st January 1968 which exceeds 1020 kg in
weight unladen not being—
(i) a trailer
not constructed or adapted to carry any load, other than plant or special
appliances or apparatus which is a permanent or essentially permanent fixture,
and not exceeding 2290 kg in total weight;
(ii) a living
van not exceeding 2040 kg in weight unladen and fitted with pneumatic tyres;

(iii) a
works trailer;
(iv) a trailer
mentioned in regulation 16(3)(b) to (g);
or
(v) a trailer
which was manufactured and used outside Great Britain before it was first
used in Great Britain; and
(e) a converter
dolly manufactured on or after 1st January 1979.
(2) Every vehicle
to which this regulation applies shall be equipped with a plate securely attached
to the vehicle in a conspicuous and readily accessible position which either—

(a) contains the
particulars required, in the case of a motor vehicle by Part I of Schedule 8 or, in the
case of a trailer, by Part II
of that Schedule, and complies with the provisions of Part III of that Schedule; or

(b) complies with
the requirements specified in the Annex to Community Directive 78/507
or, in the case of a vehicle first used before 1st October 1982, in the Annex to Community Directive 76/114,
such requirements being in any case modified as provided in paragraph (3).

(3) Instead of the
particulars required by items 2.1.4 to 2.1.7 of that Annex, the plate required
by paragraph (2)(b) shall show, for a vehicle
of a class specified in column 2 of the Table against an item of that Annex
so specified in column 1, the following particulars—
(a) the maximum
permitted weight for that class, if any, shown in column 3 of the Table;
(b) where the
maximum weight shown in column 4 of the Table exceeds the maximum permitted
weight, the maximum weight in a column on the plate to the right of the maximum
permitted weight; and
(c) if no weight
is shown in column 3 of the Table, the maximum weight shown in column 4 of
the Table, in the right hand column of the plate.

TABLE(regulation 66(3))

1 2 3 4

Item in Annex to Directive 
Class of vehicle Maximum
permitted weight Maximum
weight

2.1.4 (Laden weight of vehicle) (i) Motor
vehicles The maximum gross weight in
Great Britain referred to in item 10 in Part I of Schedule
8. The
maximum gross weight referred to in item 7 in Part I of Schedule 8
.
 (ii) Trailers, other
than semi-trailers The maximum gross
weight in Great Britain referred to in item 8 in Part II of Schedule
8. The
maximum gross weight referred to in item 6 in Part II of Schedule
8.
 (iii) Semi-trailers  The maximum gross weight referred to in item 6 in Part II of Schedule 8.

2.1.5 (Train weight of motor
vehicle) Motor vehicles constructed to
draw a trailer The lower of—(a) the maximum train weight referred to in item 8 in Part I of Schedule 8;
and(b) the maximum laden weight specified, in the case
of vehicles constructed to form part of an articulated vehicle, in regulation 77, and, in other cases,
in regulation 76.
 The maximum train weight referred to
in item 8 in Part I of Schedule 8.

2.1.6 (Axle weight
of vehicle) (i) Motor vehicles The maximum weight in Great Britain for each axle
referred to in item 9 in Part I of Schedule 8
. The
maximum weight for each axle referred to in item 6 in Part I of Schedule 8
.
 (ii) Trailers 
The maximum weight in Great Britain for each axle referred to in item 7 in Part II of Schedule 8.
 The maximum weight for each axle referred
to in item 4 in Part II of Schedule
8.

2.1.7 (Load imposed by semi-trailer) 
Semi-trailers  The maximum load imposed on the drawing vehicle referred to in item 5 in Part II of Schedule 8.

(4) Part III of Schedule 8 applies
for determining the relevant weights to be shown on a plate in accordance
with this regulation.
67 

(1) This regulation
applies to a wheeled vehicle which is first used on or after 1st April 1980
and to which the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations apply.
(2) A vehicle to which
this regulation applies shall be equipped with a plate which is in a conspicuous
and readily accessible position, is affixed to a vehicle part which is not
normally subject to replacement and shows clearly and indelibly—
(a) the vehicle
identification number in accordance with the requirements specified—

(i) in the
case of a vehicle first used before 1st April 1987, in 
paragraphs 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 of the Annex to Community Directive 76/114/EEC
; or
(ii) in any
case, in sections 3 and 4 of the Annex
to Community
Directive 78/507/EEC;
(b) the name of
the manufacturer; and
(c) the approval
reference number of either—
(i) the type
approval certificate which relates to the vehicle model or the model variant
of the vehicle model, as the case may be, issued in accordance with the provisions
of regulation 9(1) of, and Part I of Schedule 3
to, the Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations; or
(ii) the
Minister's approval certificate which relates to the vehicle, issued in accordance
with the provisions of regulation 9(2)
of, and Part
1A of Schedule 4 to, the said Regulations.
Provided that the information
required under sub-paragraph (c) above
may be shown clearly and indelibly on an additional plate which is fitted
in a conspicuous and readibly accessible position and which is affixed to
a vehicle part which is not normally subject to replacement.
(3) The vehicle identification
number of every vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be marked on
the chassis, frame or other similar structure, on the off side of the vehicle,
in a clearly visible and accessible position, and by a method such as hammering
or stamping, in such a way that it cannot be obliterated or deteriorate.
68 

(1) Save as provided
in paragraph (3) below, every wheeled agricultural trailed appliance manufactured
on or after 1st December 1985 shall be equipped with a plate affixed to the
vehicle in a conspicuous and readily accessible position and which is clearly
and indelibly marked with the particulars specified in paragraph (2) below.

(2) Those particulars
are—
(a) the name of
the manufacturer of the appliance;
(b) the year in
which the appliance was manufactured;
(c) the maximum
gross weight;
(d) the unladen
weight; and
(e) the maximum
load which would be imposed by the appliance on the drawing vehicle.
(3) In the case of
a towed roller consisting of several separate rollers used in combination,
a single plate shall satisfy the requirement specified in paragraph (2) above.

69 

(1) This regulation
applies to every motor cycle first used on or after 1st August 1977 which
is not—
(a) propelled
by an internal combustion engine with a cylinder capacity exceeding 150 cc
if the vehicle was first used before 1st January 1982 or 125 cc if it was
first used on or after 1st January 1982;
(b) a mowing machine;
or
(c) a pedestrian-controlled
vehicle.
(2) Every vehicle
to which this regulation applies shall be equipped with a plate which is securely
affixed to the vehicle in a conspicuous and readily accessible position and
which complies with the requirements of Schedule 9.

70 

(1) Every goods vehicle
to which the Plating and Testing Regulations apply and in respect of which
a plating certificate has been issued shall, from the date specified in paragraph
(2), be equipped with a Ministry plate securely affixed, so as to be legible
at all times, in a conspicuous and readily accessible position, and in the
cab of the vehicle if it has one.
(2) That date is in
the case of—
(a) a vehicle
to which the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations apply, the date
of the fourteenth day after the plate was issued; or
(b) any other
vehicle, the date by which it is required, by the said Regulations, to be
submitted for examination for plating.
71 

(1) This regulation
applies to a vehicle (other than an agricultural motor vehicle which is either
a track-laying vehicle not exceeding 3050 kg in unladen weight or a wheeled
vehicle) which is—
(a) a locomotive;

(b) a motor tractor;

(c) a heavy motor
car which is registered under the 1971 Act (or any enactment repealed thereby)
if the unladen weight of the vehicle is not shown on its Ministry plate; or

(d) an unbraked
wheeled trailer, other than one mentioned in regulation 16(3)(b)(i), (iii), (iv) or (v)
or (c) to (g).

(2) There shall be
plainly marked in a conspicuous place on the outside of a vehicle to which
this regulation applies, on its near side—
(a) if it is a
vehicle falling in paragraph (1)(a), (b), or (c), its
unladen weight; and
(b) if it is a
vehicle falling in paragraph (1)(d), its
maximum gross weight.
72 

(1) This regulation
applies to every goods vehicle to which the Plating and Testing Regulations
apply and for which a plating certificate has been issued.
(2) Without prejudice
to the provisions of regulation 70,
any weight which by virtue of regulation 80
may not be exceeded in the case of a goods vehicle to which this regulation
applies may be marked on either side, or on both sides, of the vehicle.
(3) Where at any time
by virtue of any provision contained in regulation 75
a goods vehicle to which this regulation applies may not be used in excess
of a weight which is less than the gross weight which may not be exceeded
by that vehicle by virtue of regulation 80,
the first mentioned weight may be marked on either side, or on both sides,
of the vehicle.
(4) Where at any time
by virtue of any provision contained in regulation 76 and 77
a goods vehicle to which this regulation applies is drawing, or being drawn
by, another vehicle and those vehicles may not be used together in excess
of a laden weight applicable to those vehicles by virtue of any such provision,
that weight may be marked on either side, or on both sides, of that goods
vehicle.
73 

(1) Every Ministry
test date disc which is issued, following the issue of a goods vehicle test
certificate, in respect of a trailer to which the Plating and Testing Regulations
apply and for which a plating certificate has been issued shall be carried
on the trailer in a legible condition and in a conspicuous and readily accessible
position in which it is clearly visible by daylight from the near side of
the road, from the date of its issue until but not beyond the date of expiry
of that test certificate or the date of issue of a further test certificate
for that trailer, whichever date is the earlier.
(2) In this regulation “Ministry
test date disc” means a plate issued
by the Secretary of State for a goods vehicle, being a trailer, following
the issue of a goods vehicle test certificate for that trailer under the Plating
and Testing Regulations and containing the following particulars— 
(a) the identification
mark allotted to that trailer and shown in that certificate;

(b) the
date until which that certificate is valid; and

(c) the
number of the vehicle testing station shown in that certificate.
74 

(1) Subject to the
conditions specified in paragraph (2), the following persons are hereby empowered
to test and inspect the brakes, silencers, steering gear and tyres of any
vehicle, on any premises where that vehicle is located—
(a) a police constable
in uniform;
(b) a person appointed
by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to inspect public carriages
for the purpose of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act
1869;
(c) a person appointed
by the police authority for a police area to act for the purposes of section 53 of the 1972 Act;
(d) a goods vehicle
examiner as defined in section 56
of the 1972 Act;
(e) a certifying
officer as defined in section 7(1)
of the 1981 Act; and
(f) a public service
vehicle examiner appointed as mentioned in section 7(2)
of the 1981 Act.
(2) Those conditions
are—
(a) any person
empowered as there mentioned shall produce his authorisation if required to
do so;
(b) no such person
shall enter any premises unless the consent of the owner of those premises
has first been obtained;
(c) no such person
shall test or inspect any vehicle on any premises unless—
(i) the owner
of the vehicle consents thereto;
(ii) notice
has been given to that owner personally or left at his address not less than
48 hours before the time of the proposed test or inspection, or has been sent
to him at least 72 hours before that time by the recorded delivery service
to his address last known to the person giving the notice; or
(iii) the
test or inspection is made within 48 hours of an accident to which section 25 of the 1972 Act applies
and in which the vehicle was involved.
(3) For the purposes
of this regulation, the owner of the vehicle shall be deemed to be in the
case of a vehicle—
(a) which is for
the time being registered under the 1971 Act, and is not being used under
a trade licence under that Act the person appearing as the owner of the vehicle
in the register kept by the Secretary of State under that Act;
(b) used under
a trade licence, the holder of the licence; or
(c) exempt from
excise duty by virtue of the Motor Vehicles (International
Circulation) Order 1975, the person resident
outside the United Kingdom who has brought the vehicle into Great Britain;
and in cases (a) and (b) the address of the owner as shown on the said
register or, as the case may be, on the licence may be treated as his address.

PART IV
A
75 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), the laden weight of a vehicle of a class specified
in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the maximum permitted
laden weight specified in that item in column 3.
(2) The maximum
permitted laden weight of a vehicle first used before 1st June 1973 which
falls in item 1 or 2 shall not be less than would be the case if the vehicle
fell in item 9.

TABLE(regulation 75(1))

1 2
 3
Item Class of vehicle 
Maximum permitted laden weight
  (kg)
1 A wheeled heavy motor car or motor car which is not described
in items 2, 4 or 5 and which complies with the relevant braking requirement
 The weight specified in column (5) of Part I of Schedule 11
in the item which is appropriate, having regard to columns (2), (3) and (4)
in that Part
2 A wheeled heavy motor car or motor car (not being
an agricultural motor vehicle) which forms part of an articulated vehicle
and which complies with the relevant braking requirement The weight specified in column (5) in Part II of Schedule
11 in the item which is appropriate having
regard to columns (2), (3) and (4) in that Part
3 A wheeled trailer,
including a composite trailer, but not including a semi-trailer, which is
drawn by a motor tractor, heavy motor car or motor car which complies with
the relevant braking requirement, other than a trailer described in items
6, 7, 8 or 11 As for
item 1
4 A bus The weight specified
in column (5) of Part I of Schedule 11
in the item which is appropriate having regard to columns (2), (3) and (4)
in that Part, the laden weight of the bus being calculated in the manner described
in regulation 78(3) to (5)
5 
A wheeled agricultural motor vehicle 
As for item 1, but subject to a maximum of 24,390
6 A balanced agricultural
trailer, as defined in paragraph (4),
which is not described in items 8, 11 or 16 
As for item 1, but subject to a maximum of 18,290
7 An unbalanced
agricultural trailer, as defined in paragraph (4)
which is not described in items 8, 11 or 16 
18,290 inclusive of the weight imposed by the trailer on the drawing vehicle

8 A wheeled trailer manufactured on or after 27th February 1977 and
fitted with brakes which automatically come into operation on the over-run
of the trailer (whether or not it is fitted with any other brake), except
an agricultural trailer which is being drawn by an agricultural motor vehicle,
which complies with the requirements specified in items 3, 14 and 17 of Schedule 3
and of which the brakes can be applied either by the driver of the drawing
vehicle or by some other person on that vehicle or on the trailer 3,500
9 
A wheeled heavy motor car or motor car not described in items 1, 2, 4 or 5—

 (a) with not more than
4 wheels 14,230
 (b) with more than 4 but not more than 6 wheels 20,330
 
(c) with more than 6 wheels 
24,390
10 A wheeled trailer not described in items 3, 6, 7, 8 or 11
having less than 6 wheels, and not forming part of an articulated vehicle;
and an agricultural trailed appliance 14,230
11 A trailer manufactured before 27th February 1977
and having no brakes other than—(i) a parking
brake and(ii) brakes which come into operation on the
overrun of the trailer 
3,560
12 A wheeled locomotive, not described in item 5, which
is equipped with suitable and sufficient springs between each wheel and the
vehicle's frame and with a pneumatic tyre or a tyre of soft or elastic material
fitted to each wheel—
 
(a) if having less than 6 wheels 
22,360
 (b) if having
6 wheels 26,420
 
(c) if having more than 6 wheels 
30,490
13 A track-laying locomotive with resilient material interposed
between the rims of the weight-carrying rollers and the road so that the weight
of the vehicle (other than that borne by any wheels and the portion of the
track in contact with the road) is supported by the resilient material. 22,360
14 A locomotive
not described in items 5, 12 or 13 20,830
15 A track-laying heavy motor car or motor car 22,360
16 A track-laying
trailer 13,210
(3) The maximum
total weight of all trailers, whether laden or unladen, drawn at any one time
by a locomotive shall not exceed 40,650 kg.
(4) In this
regulation and regulation 76—

 “balanced agricultural trailer”
 means an agricultural trailer the whole
of the weight of which is borne by its own wheels; and
 “unbalanced agricultural trailer”
 means an agricultural trailer of which
some, but not more than 35%, of the weight is borne by the drawing vehicle
and the rest of the weight is borne by its own wheels.
76 

(1) The total
laden weight of a motor vehicle and the trailer or trailers (other than semi-trailers)
drawn by it shall not, in a case specified in an item in column 2 of the Table,
exceed the maximum permitted train weight specified in that item in column
3.
(2) In this
regulation the expression `unbalanced agricultural trailer'has the meaning given to it in regulation 75.


TABLE(regulation 76(1))

1 2
 3
Item Vehicle Combination 
Maximum permitted train weight
  (kg)
1 A wheeled trailer which is drawn by a wheeled motor tractor,
heavy motor car or motor car, (not being in any case an agricultural motor
vehicle) and which—(a)
 is fitted with power-assisted brakes which can be operated by
the driver of the drawing vehicle and are not rendered ineffective by the
non-rotation of its engine; and
(b) is drawn by a vehicle which is equipped with a warning device
so placed as to be readily visible to the driver when in the driving seat
in order to indicate an impending deficiency or failure in the vacuum or pressure
system 32,520
2 
A wheeled agricultural motor vehicle drawing a wheeled unbalanced agricultural
trailer, if the distance between the rearmost axle of the trailer and the
rearmost axle of the drawing vehicle does not exceed 2.9 m 20,000
3 A wheeled trailer or trailers
drawn by a wheeled motor tractor, heavy motor car, motor car or agricultural
motor vehicle, not being a combination of vehicles mentioned in items 1 or
2 24,390
4 
A track-laying trailer drawn by a motor tractor, heavy motor car or motor
car, whether wheeled or track-laying and a wheeled trailer, drawn by a track-laying
vehicle being a motor tractor, heavy motor car or motor car 22,360
77 

(1) Except
as provided in paragraph (2), the laden weight of an articulated vehicle of
a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the
weight specified in column 3 in that item.

TABLE(regulation 77(1))

1 
2 3
Item Class of vehicle 
Maximum permitted laden weight
  (kg)
1 An articulated
vehicle which complies with the relevant braking requirement. Whichever is the lower of—(a) the weight specified in column (3) of Part III of Schedule 11
in the item in which the spacing between the rearmost axles of the motor vehicle
and the semi-trailer is specified in column (2), provided that the weights
in items 13 to 18 shall not apply unless the overall length of the articulated
vehicle is at least that specified in column (4) in those items; and(b) if the vehicle is of a description
specified in an item in column (2) of Part IV of Schedule
11, the weight specified in column (3) of that
item
2 An articulated vehicle which does not comply with the relevant
braking requirement if the trailer has—
 
(a) less than 4 wheels 20,330

 (b) 4 wheels or more 24,390
(2) This regulation
does not apply to an agricultural motor vehicle, an agricultural trailer or
an agricultural trailed appliance.
78 

(1) The weight
transmitted to the road by one or more wheels of a vehicle as mentioned in
an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the maximum permitted weight
specified in that item in column 3.
(2) The Parts
of the Table have the following application—
(a) Part I applies to wheeled heavy
motor cars, motor cars and trailers which comply with the relevant braking
requirement and to wheeled agricultural motor vehicles, agricultural trailers
and agricultural trailed appliances; items 1(b)
and 2 also apply to buses;
(b) Part II applies to wheeled heavy
motor cars, motor cars and trailers which do not fall in Part I;
(c) Part III applies to wheeled locomotives;
and
(d) Part IV applies to track-laying
vehicles.PART I(wheeled heavy motor cars, motor cars and trailers which comply
with the relevant braking requirement and wheeled agricultural motor vehicles,
agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances; and, in respect
of items 1(b) and 2, buses)

TABLE(regulation 78(1))

1 
2 3
Item Wheel criteria 
Maximum permitted weight
  (kg)
1 Two wheels in line
transversely each of which is fitted with a wide tyre or with two pneumatic
tyres having the centres of their areas of contact with the road not less
than 300 mm apart, measured at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the
vehicle—
 (a) if the wheels
are on the sole driving axle of a motor vehicle and the relevant train weight
shown on the plate of that vehicle exceeds 32,520 kg, 10,500
 
(b) if the vehicle is a bus which has 2 axles and of which the
weight transmitted to the road surface by its wheels is calculated in accordance
with regulation 78(5),
 10,500
 (c) in any other case 10,170

2 Two wheels in line transversely otherwise
than as mentioned in item 1 
9,200
3 More than two wheels in line transversely—
 (a) in the case of a vehicle manufactured before
1st May 1983 if the wheels are on one axle of a group of two closely spaced
axles or on one of three adjacent axles as mentioned inregulation 79 (4), 10,170
 
(b) in the case of a vehicle manufactured on or after 1st May 1983,
 10,170
 (c) in any other case 11,180
4 One wheel not transversely in line with any other
wheel—
 (a) if the wheel
is fitted as described in item 1, 5,090
 (b) in any other
case 4,600PART II(wheeled heavy motor cars, motor cars and trailers
not failing in Part I)


1 2 3
Item Wheel criteria Maximum permitted weight
  (kg)
5 More
than two wheels transmitting weight to a strip of the road surface on which
the vehicle rests contained between two parallel lines at right angles to
the longitudinal axis of the vehicle—
 
(a) less than 1.02 m apart, 
11,180
 (b) 1.02 m or more apart
but less than 1.22 m apart, 
16,260
 (c) 1.22 m or
more apart but less than 2.13 m apart 18,300

6 Two wheels in line transversely 9,200

7 One wheel, where no other wheel is
in the same line transversely. 4,600PART III(wheeled locomotives)

1 2 3
Item Wheel criteria Maximum permitted weight
  (kg)
8 Two wheels
in line transversely (except in the case of a road roller, or a vehicle with
not more than four wheels first used before 1st June 1955) 11,180
9 Any two wheels in the case
of a wheeled locomotive having not more than four wheels first used before
1st June 1955 (not being a road roller or an agricultural motor vehicle which
is not driven at more than 20 mph) Three
quarters of the total weight of the locomotive.PART IV(track-laying vehicles)

1 2 3
Item Wheel criteria Maximum permitted weight
  (kg)
10 
The weight of a heavy motor car, motor car or trailer transmitted to any strip
of the road surface on which the vehicle rests contained between two parallel
lines 0.6 m apart at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
 10,170
11 Two wheels
in line—
 (a) heavy motor
cars or motor cars with 2 wheels, 8,130
 (b) heavy motor
cars or motor cars with more than 2 wheels 7,630
12 One wheel, where no other wheel is in the same line
transversely, on a heavy motor car or a motor car 4,070
(3) In the
case of an articulated bus, or, subject to paragraph (4), of a bus first used
before 1st April 1988, the laden weight, for the purposes of item 4 in the
Table in regulation 75,
and the weight transmitted to the road surface by wheels of the vehicle, for
the purposes of items 1 and 2 of the Table in this regulation, shall be calculated
with reference to the vehicle when it is complete and fully equipped for service
with—
(a) a
full supply of water, oil and fuel; and
(b) weights
of 63.5 kg for each person (including crew)—
(i) 
for whom a seat is provided in the position in which he may be seated; and

(ii) 
who may by or under any enactment be carried standing, the total of such weights
being reasonably distributed in the space in which such persons may be carried,
save that in the case of a bus (not being an articulated bus) only the number
of such persons exceeding 8 shall be taken into account.
(4) The weights
for the purposes referred to in paragraph (3) may, in the case of a bus to
which that paragraph applies, be calculated in accordance with paragraph (5)
instead of paragraph (3).
(5) In the
case of a bus first used on or after 1st April 1988, the weights for the purposes
referred to in paragraph (3) shall be calculated with reference to the vehicle
when it is complete and fully equipped for service with—
(a) a
full supply of water, oil and fuel;
(b) a
weight of 65 kg for each person (including crew)—
(i) 
for whom a seat is provided, in the position in which he may be seated; and

(ii) 
who may by or under any enactment be carried standing, the total of such weights
being reasonably distributed in the space in which such persons may be so
carried, save that in the case of a bus (not being an articulated bus) only
the number of such persons exceeding 4 shall be taken into account;
(c) all
luggage space within the vehicle but not within the passenger compartment
loaded at the rate of 100 kg per m3 or 10 kg per
person mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above,
whichever is the less; and
(d) any
area of the roof of the vehicle constructed or adapted for the storage of
luggage loaded with a uniformly distributed load at the rate of 75 kg per
m2.
79 

(1) This regulation
applies to—
(a) a
wheeled motor vehicle which complies with the relevant braking requirement;

(b) a
wheeled trailer which is drawn by such a motor vehicle; and
(c) an
agricultural motor vehicle, an agricultural trailer and an agricultural trailed
appliance.
(2) Save as
provided in paragraph (5), where two closely spaced axles of a vehicle to
which this regulation applies are spaced at a distance specified in an item
in column 2 of Part V of Schedule 11,
the total weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of those
axles shall not exceed in a case—
(a) where
the weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of either of
the axles does not in either case exceed one half of the weight specified
in that item in column 3, the weight so specified;
(b) where
the weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of one of the
axles exceeds one half of the weight shown in that item in column 3 of that
Part but does not exceed 10,170 kg, the weight specified in that item in column
4; or
(c) other
than one mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)
or (b) above, the weight specified in that
item in column 5.
(3) Save as
provided in paragraph (5), where any two adjoining axles of three closely
spaced axles of a vehicle to which this regulation applies are spaced at such
a distance apart as is specified in an item in column 2 of Part VI of Schedule
11, the weight transmitted to the road surface
by all the wheels of each of those axles shall not exceed the weight shown
in that item in column 3.
(4) Save as
provided in paragraph (5), where—
(a) the
weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of any one of three
adjacent axles of a semi-trailer to which this regulation applies exceeds
7,500 kg;
(b) the
foremost and rearmost of the three adjacent axles are spaced at a distance
specified in an item in column 2 of Part VII of Schedule
11; and
(c) the
weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of the intermediate
axle does not exceed the weight shown in column 3 in that item,the total weight transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels
of those axles shall not exceed the weight shown in column 4 in that item.

(5) Nothing
in paragraphs (2), (3) or (4) of this regulation shall apply so as to prevent
a vehicle first used before 1st June 1973 from being used on a road at a weight
as respects those axles at which it could be used if it fell within item 5
in the Table in regulation 78
and nothing in paragraph (3) of this regulation shall apply so as to prevent
a vehicle being used on a road with axle weights shown on the plating certificate
issued for the vehicle current on 30th April 1983.
80 

(1) Subject
to paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a
road a vehicle—
(a) fitted
with a plate in accordance with regulation 66,
but for which no plating certificate has been issued, if any of the weights
shown on the plate is exceeded;
(b) for
which a plating certificate has been issued, if any of the weights shown in
column (2) of the plating certificate is exceeded; or
(c) required
by regulation 68
to be fitted with a plate, if the maximum gross weight referred to in paragraph
(2)(c) of that regulation is exceeded.

(2) Where
any two or more axles are fitted with a compensating arrangement in accordance
with regulation 23
the sum of the weights shown for them in the plating certificate shall not
be exceeded. In a case where a plating certificate has not been issued the
sum of the weights referred to shall be that shown for the said axles in the
plate fitted in accordance with regulation 66.

(3) Nothing
in regulations 75 to 79
shall permit any such weight as is mentioned in the preceding provisions of
this regulation to be exceeded and nothing in this regulation shall permit
any weight prescribed by regulations 75 to 79
in relation to the vehicle in question to be exceeded.
B
81 
For the purposes of this regulation, regulation 82 and Schedule 12—

(a) “lateral
projection”, in relation to a load carried by a vehicle,
means that part of the load which extends beyond a side
of the vehicle;
(b) 
the width of any lateral projection shall be measured between longitudinal
planes passing through the extreme projecting point of the vehicle on that
side on which the projection lies and that part of the projection furthest
from that point;
(c) 
references to a special appliance or apparatus, in relation to a vehicle,
are references to any crane or other special appliance or apparatus fitted
to the vehicle which is a permanent or essentially permanent fixture;
(d) “forward
projection” and “rearward projection”— 
(i) in relation to a load carried in such a manner that
its weight rests on only one vehicle, mean respectively that part of the load
which extends beyond the foremost point of the vehicle and that part which
extends beyond the rearmost point of the vehicle;

(ii) in relation to a load carried in such a manner that part of its
weight rests on more than one vehicle, mean respectively that part of the
load which extends beyond the foremost point of the foremost vehicle by which
the load is carried except where the context otherwise requires and that part
of the load which extends beyond the rearmost point of the rearmost vehicle
by which the load is carried; and

(iii) in relation to any special appliance or apparatus, mean respectively
that part of the appliance or apparatus which, if it were deemed to be a load
carried by the vehicle, would be a part of a load extending beyond the foremost
point of the vehicle and that part which would be a part of a load extending
beyond the rearmost point of the vehicle,
 and references in regulation 82
and Schedule
12 to a forward projection or to a rearward
projection in relation to a vehicle shall be construed accordingly;

(e) 
the length of any forward projection or of any rearward projection shall be
measured between transverse planes passing—
(i) 
in the case of a forward projection, through the foremost point of the vehicle
and that part of the projection furthest from that point; and
(ii) 
in the case of a rearward projection, through the rearmost point of the vehicle
and that part of the projection furthest from that point;In this and the foregoing sub-paragraph “vehicle” does not include any special appliance or apparatus or any part
thereof which is a forward projection or a rearward projection;

(f) 
references to the distance between vehicles, in relation to vehicles carrying
a load, are references to the distance between the nearest points of any two
adjacent vehicles by which the load is carried, measured when the longitudinal
axis of each vehicle lies in the same vertical plane.For the purposes of this sub-paragraph, in determining the nearest
point of two vehicles any part of either vehicle designed primarily for use
as a means of attaching the one vehicle to the other and any fitting designed
for use in connection with any such part shall be disregarded;
(g) 
references to a combination of vehicles, in relation to a motor vehicle which
is drawing one or more trailers, are references to the motor vehicle and the
trailer or trailers drawn thereby, including any other motor vehicle which
is used for the purpose of assisting in the propulsion of the trailer or the
trailers on the road;
(h) 
the overall length of a combination of vehicles shall be taken as the distance
between the foremost point of the drawing vehicle comprised in the combination
and the rearmost point of the rearmost vehicle comprised therein, measured
when the longitudinal axis of each vehicle comprised in the combination lies
in the same vertical plane;
(i) 
the extreme projecting point of a vehicle is the point from which the overall
width of the vehicle is calculated in accordance with the definition of overall
width contained in regulation 3(2);

(j) 
without prejudice to sub-paragraph (e)
the foremost or, as the case may be, the rearmost point of a vehicle is the
foremost or rearmost point from which the overall length of the vehicle is
calculated in accordance with the definition of overall length contained in regulation 3(2); and
(k) 
an agricultural, horticultural or forestry implement rigidly but not permanently
mounted on an agricultural motor vehicle, agricultural trailer or agricultural
trailed appliance, whether or not part of its weight is supported by one or
more of its own wheels, shall not be treated as a load, or special appliance,
on that vehicle.
82 

(1) 
No load shall be carried on a vehicle so that the overall width of the vehicle
together with the width of any lateral projection or projections of its load
exceeds 4.3m.
(2) 
Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, no load shall be carried
on a vehicle so that—
(a) 
the load has a lateral projection or projections on either side exceeding
305mm; or
(b) 
the overall width of the vehicle and of any lateral projection or projections
of its load exceeds 2.9m.Provided
that this paragraph does not apply to the carriage of—
(i) loose agricultural produce not baled or crated; or
(ii) an indivisible load if—(A) it is not reasonably practicable to comply with this paragraph
and the conditions specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 12
are complied with; and(B) where the overall width of the vehicle together with the
width of any lateral projection or projections of its load exceeds 3.5m, the
conditions specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 12
are complied with.
(3) 
Where a load is carried so that its weight rests on a vehicle or vehicles,
the length specified in paragraph (5) shall not exceed 27.4m.
(4) 
Where a load is so carried and either—
(a) 
the length specified in paragraph (5) exceeds 18.3m; or
(b) 
the load rests on a trailer or trailers and the length specified in paragraph
(6) exceeds 25.9m,the conditions specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule
12 shall be complied with.
(5) 
The length referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4)(a)
 is—
(a) 
where the load rests on a single vehicle, the overall length of the vehicle
together with the length of any forward and rearward projection of the load;

(b) 
where the load rests on a motor vehicle and one trailer, whether or not forming
an articulated vehicle, the overall length of the trailer together with the
length of any projection of the load in front of the foremost point of the
trailer and of any rearward projection of the load; and
(c) 
in any other case, the overall length of all the vehicles on which the load
rests, together with the length of any distance between them and of any forward
or rearward projection of the load.
(6) 
The length referred to in paragraph (4)(b)
is the overall length of the combination of vehicles, together with the length
of any forward or rearward projection of the load.
(7) 
Subject to the following provisions of this regulation no person shall use,
or cause or permit to be used, on a road a vehicle, not being a straddle carrier,
carrying a load or fitted with a special appliance or apparatus if the load,
appliance or apparatus has a forward projection of a length specified in an
item in column 2 of the Table, or rearward projection of a length specified
in an item in column 3, unless the conditions specified in that item in column
4 are complied with.

TABLE(regulation 82(7))

1 2 3 4
Item Length of forward projection Length of rearward projection Conditions to be complied with
   (a) (b)
   if the load consists of a racing boat propelled
solely by oars. in any other case
1 
Exceeding 1 m but not exceeding 2 m — Para 4 of Schedule 12 —
2 Exceeding 2
m but not exceeding 3.05 m 
— Para 4 of Schedule 12 Paras 2 and 3 of Schedule 12
3 
Exceeding 3.05 m —
 Paras 1 and 4 of Schedule 12 Paras 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 12
4 — Exceeding 1 m but
not exceeding 2 m Para 4 of Schedule 12 Para 4 of Schedule 12
5 — Exceeding 2 m but
not exceeding 3.05 m Para 4 of Schedule 12 Para 3 of Schedule 12
6 — Exceeding 3.05 m Paras 1 and 4 of Schedule 12 Paras 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 12
(8) 
Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, no person shall use,
or cause or permit to be used, on a road a straddle carrier carrying a load
if—
(a) 
the load has a rearward projection exceeding 1 m unless the conditions specified
in paragraph 4 of Schedule 12
are met;
(b) 
the load has a forward projection exceeding 2 m or a rearward projection exceeding
3m; or
(c) 
the overall length of the vehicle together with the length of any forward
projection and of any rearward projection of its load exceeds 12.2mProvided
that—
(i) sub-paragraph (a) does
not apply to a vehicle being used in passing from one part of private premises
to another part thereof or to other private premises in the immediate neighbourhood;

(ii) sub-paragraphs (b)
and (c) do not apply to a vehicle being
used as in proviso (i) above if—(A) the vehicle is not being driven at a speed exceeding
12 mph; and(B) where the overall length of the vehicle together with
the length of any forward projection and of any rearward projection of its
load exceeds 12.2m, the conditions specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 12
are complied with.
(9) 
Where another vehicle is attached to that end of a vehicle from which a projection
extends, then for the purposes of any requirement in this regulation to comply
with paragraph 3 or 4 of Schedule 12,
that projection shall be treated as a forward or rearward projection only
if, and to the extent that it extends beyond the foremost point or, as the
case may be, the rearmost point, of that other vehicle, measured when the
longitudinal axis of each vehicle lies in the same vertical plane.
(10) 
In the case of a vehicle being used—
(a) 
for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or for defence purposes (including
civil defence purposes); or
(b) 
in connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic,if compliance with any provision of this regulation would hinder
or be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it
is being used, that provision does not apply to that vehicle while it is being
so used.
(11) 
No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road an agricultural,
horticultural or forestry implement rigidly, but not permanently, mounted
on a wheeled agricultural motor vehicle, agricultural trailer, or agricultural
trailed appliance, whether or not part of its weight is supported by one or
more of its own wheels if—
(a) 
the overall width of the vehicle together with the lateral projection of the
implement exceeds 2.5m; or
(b) 
the implement projects more than 1m forwards or rearwards of the vehicle,
so however, that this restriction shall not apply in a case where—

(i) 
part of the weight of the implement is supported by one or more of its own
wheels; and
(ii) 
the longitudinal axis of the greater part of the implement is capable of articulating
in the horizontal plane in relation to the longitudinal axis of the rear portion
of the vehicle.
C
83 

(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a
class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject
to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.

TABLE(regulation 83(1))

1 2
 3
Item Class of vehicles 
Exceptions

1 A straddle carrier —
2 An invalid carriage —
3 An articulated
bus —
4 
A bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus (a) 1 broken down bus where
no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or(b) 1 trailer having an overall
length, including the draw-bar, not exceeding 5 m provided that the overall
length of the combination does not exceed 15 m
5 A locomotive 3 trailers
6 A motor tractor 1 trailer if laden,2 trailers
if neither is laden
7 A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in
item 1, 3 or 4 2 trailers if one of them
is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests
on or is suspended from that implement1 trailer in
any other case
8 An agricultural motor vehicle 
(a) in respect of trailers other than agricultural
trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted
under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or
(b) in respect of agricultural trailers and
agricultural trailed appliances— 
(i) 2 unladen agricultural trailers, or
(ii) 1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural
trailed appliance, or
(iii) 2 agricultural trailed appliances
(2) For the
purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—
(a) an
unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because
it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and
(b) a
towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry
and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural
trailed appliance.
(3) No track-laying
motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other
than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.

84 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used,
on a road a motor cycle—
(a) drawing
behind it more than one trailer;
(b) drawing
behind it any trailer carrying a passenger;
(c) drawing
behind it a trailer with an unladen weight exceeding 254 kg;
(d) with
not more than 2 wheels, without a sidecar, and with an engine capacity which
does not exceed 125 cc, drawing behind it any trailer; or
(e) with
not more than 2 wheels, without a sidecar and with an engine capacity exceeding
125 cc, drawing behind it any trailer unless—
(i) 
the trailer has an overall width not exceeding 1 m;
(ii) 
the distance between the rear axle of the motor cycle and the rearmost part
of the trailer does not exceed 2.5 m;
(iii) 
the motor cycle is clearly and indelibly marked in a conspicuous and readily
accessible position with its kerbside weight;
(iv) 
the trailer is clearly and indelibly marked in a conspicuous and readily accessible
position with its unladen weight; and
(v) 
the laden weight of the trailer does not exceed 150 kg or two thirds of the
kerbside weight of the motor cycle, whichever is the less.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1)(b), 
(d) and (e) do not apply if
the trailer is a broken down motorcycle and one passenger is riding it.
85 

(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled agricultural
motor vehicle drawing one or more wheeled trailers if the weight of the drawing
vehicle is less than a quarter of the weight of the trailer or trailers, unless
the brakes fitted to each trailer in compliance with 
regulation 15 or 16 are operated directly by
the service braking system fitted to the motor vehicle.
(2) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road, any motor vehicle drawing
an agricultural trailer of which—
(a) more
than 35% of the weight is borne by the drawing vehicle; or
(b) the
gross weight exceeds 14,230 kg, unless it is fitted with brakes as mentioned
in paragraph (1).
(3) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road an agricultural trailer
manufactured on or after 1st December 1985 which is drawn by a motor vehicle
first used on or after 1st June 1986 unless the brakes fitted to the trailer—

(a) in
accordance with regulation 15
can be applied progressively by the driver of the drawing vehicle, from his
normal driving position and while keeping proper control of that vehicle,
using a means of operation mounted on the drawing vehicle; or
(b) automatically
come into operation on the over-run of the trailer.
86 

(1) Where
a trailer is attached to the vehicle immediately in front of it solely by
means of a rope or chain, the distance between the trailer and that vehicle
shall not in any case exceed 4.5 m, and shall not exceed 1.5 m unless the
rope or chain is made clearly visible to any other person using the road within
a reasonable distance from either side.
(2) For the
purpose of determining the said distance any part of either vehicle designed
primarily for use as a means of attaching the one vehicle to the other and
any fitting designed for use in connection with any such part shall be disregarded.

87 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used,
on a road an unbraked wheeled trailer if—
(a) its
laden weight exceeds its maximum gross weight; or
(b) it
is drawn by a vehicle of which the kerbside weight is less than twice the
sum of the unladen weight of the trailer and the weight of any load which
the trailer is carrying.
(2) This regulation
does not apply to—
(a) an
agricultural trailer; or
(b) a
trailer mentioned in regulation 16(3)(b) to (g).

88 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use or cause or permit to be used
on a road a motor vehicle constructed for the purpose of carrying other vehicles
or any trailer constructed for that purpose so that while such vehicle or
trailer is on a road any part of the weight of any vehicle which is being
carried rests on a plate of a kind mentioned in paragraph (h)
in the definition in regulation 3(2)
of “overall length”.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1) do not apply—
(a) while
the motor vehicle or trailer constructed for the purpose of carrying other
vehicles is being loaded or unloaded; or
(b) if
the plate is folded or withdrawn so that it does not bridge the gap between
the motor vehicle and the trailer.
89 
No person in charge of a motor vehicle, or trailer drawn thereby,
shall cause or permit such trailer to stand on a road when detached from the
drawing vehicle unless one at least of the wheels of the trailer is (or, in
the case of a track-laying trailer, its tracks are) prevented from revolving
by the setting of the brake or the use of a chain, chock or other efficient
device.
90 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used,
on a road any trailer for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1) do not apply in respect of a wheeled trailer which is, or
is carrying, a broken down motor vehicle if—
(a) the
trailer is drawn at a speed not exceeding 30 mph; and
(b) where
the trailer is, or is carrying, a broken down bus, it is attached to the drawing
vehicle by a rigid draw bar.
(3) Save as
provided in paragraph (4), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used,
on a road a wheeled trailer in which any person is carried and which is a
living van having either—
(a) less
than 4 wheels; or
(b) 4
wheels consisting of two close-coupled wheels on each side.
(4) The provisions
of paragraph (3) do not apply in respect of a trailer which is being tested
by—
(a) its
manufacturer;
(b) a
person by whom it has been, or is being, repaired; or
(c) a
distributor of, or dealer in, trailers.
91 

(1) The requirements
of section 34 of
the 1972 Act with regard to the employment of drivers and attendants shall
not apply in respect of the following vehicles—
(a) an
articulated vehicle;
(b) an
agricultural motor vehicle which is drawing an agricultural trailer or an
agricultural trailed appliance;
(c) a
trailer with not more than two wheels drawn by a motor car or a motor cycle
or a four-wheeled trailer having two close-coupled wheels on each side drawn
by a motor car;
(d) a
motor tractor drawing any—
(i) 
closed trailer specially constructed and used for the conveyance of meat between
docks and railway stations or between wholesale markets and docks or railway
stations;
(ii) 
machine or implement used for the purpose of the maintenance, repair or cleansing
of roads; or
(iii) 
refuse vehicle;
(e) a
works truck drawing any works trailer where the unladen weight of each vehicle
does not exceed 1525 kg;
(f) a
motor vehicle drawing a trailer which has no brakes other than a parking brake
and brakes which automatically come into operation on the overrun of the trailer;

(g) a
road roller;
(h) a
motor vehicle belonging to the Secretary of State for Defence and being used
for naval, military or air force purposes drawing a trailer fitted with brakes
which can be applied by the driver of the drawing vehicle;
(i) a
motor vehicle drawing a broken down vehicle, whether or not in consequence
of a breakdown, in such a manner that the broken down vehicle cannot be steered
by its own steering gear;
(j) a
motor vehicle drawing another vehicle in the exercise of a statutory power
of removal in such a manner that the vehicle being so drawn cannot be steered
by its own steering gear;
(k) a
motor vehicle which is drawing a towing implement not attached to any other
vehicle; or
(l) a
motor vehicle drawing a trailer or trailers where every such trailer is fitted
with power-assisted or power-operated brakes which can be operated by the
driver of the drawing vehicle and are not rendered ineffective by the non-rotation
of the engine of the drawing vehicle—
(i) 
where one such trailer is drawn; or
(ii) 
where two or more such trailers are drawn, if one attendant is carried on
either the drawing vehicle or a trailer for the purpose of attending to the
trailers.
(2) The requirements
of the said section 34 with regard to the employment of persons to drive or
attend a locomotive whilst being driven on a highway shall not apply in the
case of a locomotive propelled by the combustion of liquid fuel or by electrical
power, whether or not the locomotive is drawing a trailer or trailers.
(3) The provisions
of this regulation shall not be treated as prejudicing the operation of any
provision of regulation 82
in so far as it provides, in relation to the use of a vehicle on a road, for
compliance with the conditions specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 12
(which relates to the employment of persons in attending to vehicles and their
load).
92 
Every sidecar fitted to a motor cycle shall be so attached that
the wheel thereof is not wholly outside the space between transverse planes
passing through the extreme projecting points at the front and at the rear
of the motor cycle.
93 
No person shall use or cause or permit to be used on a road any
two-wheeled motor cycle registered on or after 1st August 1981, not being
a motor cycle brought temporarily into Great Britain by a person resident
abroad, if there is a sidecar attached to the right (or off) side of the motor
cycle.
D
94 

(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a vehicle with a gas propulsion
system unless the whole of such system is in a safe condition.
(2) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in any gas supply system for the
propulsion of a vehicle when the vehicle is on a road any fuel except liquefied
petroleum gas.
(3) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a vehicle which is propelled
by gas unless the gas container in which such fuel is stored is on the motor
vehicle, and not on any trailer, and in the case of an articulated vehicle
on the portion of the vehicle to which the engine is fitted.
(4) In this
regulation and in regulation 95 “liquefied
petroleum gas” means— 
(a) butane gas
in any phase which meets the requirements contained in the specification of
commercial butane and propane issued by the British Standards Institution
under the number BS4250: 1975 and published on 29th August 1975; or

(b) 
propane gas in any phase which meets the requirements contained in the said
specification; or

(c) 
any mixture of such butane gas and such propane gas.
95 

(1) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in or on a vehicle on a road any
gas-fired appliance unless the whole of such appliance and the gas system
attached thereto is in an efficient and safe condition.
(2) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in any gas-fired appliance in or
on a vehicle on a road any fuel except liquefied petroleum gas as defined
in regulation 94(4).

(3) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in or on a vehicle on a road any
gas-fired appliance unless the vehicle is so ventilated that—
(a) an
ample supply of air is available for the operation of the appliance;
(b) the
use of the appliance does not adversely affect the health or comfort of any
person using the vehicle; and
(c) any
unburnt gas is safely disposed of to the outside of the vehicle.
(4) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a vehicle in or on which
there is—
(a) one
gas-fired appliance unless the gas supply for such appliance is shut off at
the point where it leaves the container of containers at all times when the
appliance is not in use;
(b) more
than one gas-fired appliance each of which has the same supply of gas unless
the gas supply for such appliances is shut off at the point where it leaves
the container or containers at all times when none of such appliances is in
use; or
(c) more
than one gas-fired appliance each of which does not have the same supply of
gas unless each gas supply for such appliances is shut off at the point where
it leaves the container or containers at all times when none of such appliances
which it supplies is in use.
96 

(1) Subject
to paragraph (2), this regulation applies to every motor vehicle and trailer.

(2) Paragraphs
(3) and (4) do not apply to a vehicle constructed or adapted for the conveyance
of goods under controlled temperatures.
(3) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in any vehicle to which this paragraph
applies, while the vehicle is in motion on a road, any gas-fired appliance
except—
(a) a
gas-fired appliance which is fitted to engineering plant while the plant is
being used for the purposes of the engineering operations for which it was
designed;
(b) a
gas-fired appliance which is permanently attached to a bus, provided that
any appliance for heating or cooling the interior of the bus for the comfort
of the driver and any passengers does not expose a naked flame on the outside
of the appliance; or
(c) in
any other vehicle, a refrigerating appliance or an appliance which does not
expose a naked flame on the outside of the appliance and which is permanently
attached to the vehicle and designed for the purpose of heating any part of
the interior of the vehicle for the comfort of the driver and any passengers.

(4) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in any vehicle to which this paragraph
applies, while the vehicle is in motion on a road, any gas-fired appliance
to which—
(a) sub-paragraph
(3)(a) refers, unless the appliance complies
with the requirements specified in paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 5
 and the gas system to which it is attached
complies with the requirements specified in paragraphs 2 to 9
and 15 of Schedule
5; or
(b) sub-paragraph
(3)(b) refers, unless the appliance complies
with the requirements specified in paragraphs 12, 13 and 14 of Schedule
5 and the gas system to which it is attached
complies with the requirements specified in paragraphs 2 to 9, 11 and 15 of Schedule 5;
or
(c) sub-paragraph
(3)(c) refers, unless the appliance complies—

(i) 
if it is fitted to a motor vehicle, with the requirements specified in paragraphs 12, 13 and 14 of Schedule 5;
and
(ii) 
in any other case, with the requirements specified in 
paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 5;and the gas system to which the appliance is attached complies
with the requirements specified in paragraphs 2 to 9
and 15 of Schedule
5.
(5) No person
shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in a vehicle to which this regulation
applies which is in motion on a road any gas-fired appliance unless it is
fitted with a valve which stops the supply of gas to the appliance if the
appliance fails to perform its function and causes gas to be emitted.
E
97 
No motor vehicle shall be used on a road in such manner as to cause
any excessive noise which could have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable
care on the part of the driver.
98 

(1) Save as
provided in paragraph (2), the driver of a vehicle shall, when the vehicle
is stationary, stop the action of any machinery attached to or forming part
of the vehicle so far as may be necessary for the prevention of noise.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1) do not apply—
(a) when
the vehicle is stationary owing to the necessities of traffic;
(b) so
as to prevent the examination or working of the machinery where the examination
is necessitated by any failure or derangement of the machinery or where the
machinery is required to be worked for a purpose other than driving the vehicle;
or
(c) in
respect of a vehicle propelled by gas produced in plant carried on the vehicle,
to such plant.
99 

(1) Subject
to the following paragraphs, no person shall sound, or cause or permit to
be sounded, any horn, gong, bell or siren fitted to or carried on a vehicle
which is—
(a) stationary
on a road, at any time, other than at times of danger due to another moving
vehicle on or near the road; or
(b) in
motion on a restricted road, between 23.30 hours and 07.00 hours in the following
morning.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1)(a) do not apply in respect
of the sounding of a reversing alarm when the vehicle to which it is fitted
is about to move backwards and its engine is running.
(3) No person
shall sound, or cause or permit to be sounded, on a road any reversing alarm
fitted to a vehicle—
(a) unless
the vehicle is a goods vehicle which has a maximum gross weight not less than
2000 kg, a bus, engineering plant, or a works truck; or
(b) if
the sound of the alarm is likely to be confused with a sound emitted in the
operation of a pedestrian crossing established, or having effect as if established,
under Part III
of the 1984 Act.
(4) Subject
to the provisions of the following paragraphs, no person shall sound, or cause
or permit to be sounded a gong, bell, siren or two-tone horn, fitted to or
otherwise carried on a vehicle (whether it is stationary or not).
(5) Nothing
in paragraph (1) or (4) shall prevent the sounding of—
(a) an
instrument or apparatus fitted to, or otherwise carried on, a vehicle at a
time when the vehicle is being used for one of the purposes specified in regulation 37(5) and it is necessary
or desirable to do so either to indicate to other road users the urgency of
the purposes for which the vehicle is being used, or to warn other road users
of the presence of the vehicle on the road; or
(b) a
horn (not being a two-tone horn), bell, gong or siren—
(i) 
to raise alarm as to the theft or attempted theft of the vehicle or its contents;
or
(ii) 
in the case of a bus, to summon help for the driver, the conductor or an inspector.

(6) Subject
to the provisions of section 62
of the Control
of Pollution Act 1974 and notwithstanding the
provisions of paragraphs (1) and (4) above, a person may, between 12.00 hours
and 19.00 hours, sound or cause or permit to be sounded an instrument or apparatus,
other than a two-tone horn, fitted to or otherwise carried on a vehicle, being
an instrument or apparatus designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing
members of the public that the vehicle is conveying goods for sale, if, when
the apparatus or instrument is sounded, it is sounded only for that purpose.

(7) For the
purposes of this regulation the expressions which are referred to in regulation 37(10) have the meanings
there given to them and the expression “restricted road”
in paragraph (1) means a road which is a restricted
road for the purpose of section 81
of the 1984 Act.
F
100 

(1) A motor
vehicle, every trailer drawn thereby and all parts and accessories of such
vehicle and trailer shall at all times be in such condition, and the number
of passengers carried by such vehicle or trailer, the manner in which any
passengers are carried in or on such vehicle or trailer, and the weight, distribution,
packing and adjustment of the load of such vehicle or trailer shall at all
times be such, that no danger is caused or is likely to be caused to any person
in or on the vehicle or trailer or on a road.Provided that
the provisions of this regulation with regard to the number of passengers
carried shall not apply to a vehicle to which the Public Service Vehicles (Carrying Capacity) Regulations 1984
 apply.
(2) The load
carried by a motor vehicle or trailer shall at all times be so secured, if
necessary by physical restraint other than its own weight, and be in such
a position, that neither danger nor nuisance is likely to be caused to any
person or property by reason of the load or any part thereof falling or being
blown from the vehicle or by reason of any other movement of the load or any
part thereof in relation to the vehicle.
(3) No motor
vehicle or trailer shall be used for any purpose for which it is so unsuitable
as to cause or be likely to cause danger or nuisance to any person in or on
the vehicle or trailer or on a road.
101 

(1) Save
as provided in paragraph (2) no person shall, except with the except with
the permission of a police officer in a uniform, cause or permit any motor
vehicle to stand on a road at any time between half an hour after sunset and
half an hour before sunrise unless the near side of the vehicle is as close
as may be to the edge of the carriageway.
(2) The provisions
of paragraph (1) do not apply in respect of any motor vehicle—
(a) 
being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or for defence purposes
(including civil defence purposes) if compliance with those provisions would
hinder or be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which
it is being used on that occasion;
(b) 
being used in connection with—
(i) 
any building operation or demolition;
(ii) 
the repair of any other vehicle;
(iii) 
the removal of any obstruction to traffic;
(iv) 
the maintenance, repair or reconstruction of any road; or
(v) 
the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or near to any road of any sewer,
main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, of any
telecommunication apparatus as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunication Act 1984
or of the apparatus of any electric transport undertaking,if, in any such case, compliance with those provisions would hinder
or be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it
is being used on that occasion;
(c) 
on any road in which vehicles are allowed to proceed in one direction only;

(d) 
standing on a part of a road set aside for the parking of vehicles or as a
stand for hackney carriages or as a stand for buses or as a place at which
such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking
up and setting down of passengers where compliance with those provisions would
conflict with the provisions of any order, regulations or byelaws governing
the use of such part of a road for that purpose; or
(e) 
waiting to set down or pick up passengers in accordance with regulations made
or directions given by a chief officer of police in regard to such setting
down or picking up.
102 
If any person in addition to the driver is carried astride a two-wheeled
motor cycle on a road (whether a sidecar is attached to it or not) suitable
supports or rests for the feet shall be available on the motor cycle for that
person.
103 
No person in charge of a motor vehicle or trailer shall cause or
permit the vehicle to stand on a road so as to cause any unnecessary obstruction
of the road.
104 
No person shall drive or cause or permit any other person to drive,
a motor vehicle on a road if he is in such a position that he cannot have
proper control of the vehicle or have a full view of the road and traffic
ahead.
105 
No person shall open, or cause or permit to be opened, any door
of a vehicle on a road so as to injure or endanger any person.
106 
No person shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a motor
vehicle backwards on a road further than may be requisite for the safety or
reasonable convenience of the occupants of the vehicle or other traffic, unless
it is a road roller or is engaged in the construction, maintenance or repair
of the road.
107 

(1) Save
as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall leave, or cause or permit to
be left, on a road a motor vehicle which is not attended by a person licensed
to drive it unless the engine is stopped and any parking brake with which
the vehicle is required to be equipped is effectively set.
(2) The requirement
specified in paragraph (1) as to the stopping of the engine shall not apply
in respect of a vehicle—
(a) 
being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes; or
(b) 
in such a position and condition as not to be likely to endanger any person
or property and engaged in an operation which requires its engine to be used
to—
(i) 
drive machinery forming part of, or mounted on, the vehicle and used for purposes
other than driving the vehicle; or
(ii) 
maintain the electrical power of the batteries of the vehicle at a level required
for driving that machinery or apparatus.
(3) In this
regulation “parking brake” means 
a brake fitted to a vehicle in accordance with requirement 16 or 18 in Schedule 3.
108 
Where a vehicle is fitted with any apparatus or appliance designed
for lifting and part of the apparatus or appliance consists of a suspended
implement, the implement shall at all times while the vehicle is in motion
on a road and when the implement is not attached to any load supported by
the appliance or apparatus be so secured either to the appliance or apparatus
or to some part of the vehicle that no danger is caused or is likely to be
caused to any person on the vehicle or on the road.
109 

(1) No person
shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a motor vehicle on a road, if
the driver is in such a position as to be able to see, whether directly or
by reflection, a television receiving apparatus or other cinematographic apparatus
used to display anything other than information—
(a) 
about the state of the vehicle or its equipment;
(b) 
about the location of the vehicle and the road on which it is located;
(c) 
to assist the driver to see the road adjacent to the vehicle; or
(d) 
to assist the driver to reach his destination.
(2) In this
regulation “television receiving apparatus”
means any cathode ray tube carried on a vehicle and
on which there can be displayed an image derived from a television broadcast,
a recording or a camera or computer.
John Moore
Secretary of State for Transport
25th June 1986
SCHEDULE 1


Title
 Year and Number
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles)
Regulations 1955 S.I. 1955/990

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track
Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1957 S.I. 1957/439
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and
Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1957 S.I. 1957/972
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and
Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1959 S.I. 1959/2053
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and
Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/817
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and
Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/1811
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and
Use) Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/1017

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/1233

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/1235

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 4) Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/1263

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/1317

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1979 S.I. 1979/138

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1979 S.I. 1979/843

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1979 S.I. 1979/1062

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/140

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/139

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/287

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 4) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/610

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/880

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 6) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/1166

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 7) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/1789

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/261

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/697

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/915

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 4) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/1189

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/1580

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 6) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/1663

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 7) Regulations 1981 S.I. 1981/1688

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1057

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1132

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1223

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 4) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1272

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1422

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 6) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1480

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 7) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/1576

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1983 S.I. 1983/112

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1983 S.I. 1983/471

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1983 S.I. 1983/932

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/195

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/331

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 3) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/386

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 4) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/679

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 5) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/813

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 6) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/1543

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
(No. 7) Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/1809

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment)
Regulations 1985 S.I. 1985/91
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations
1985 
S.I. 1985/730
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations
1985 
S.I. 1985/1363
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations
1985 
S.I. 1985/2039
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations
1985 
S.I. 1985/2051
SCHEDULE 2
(see regulation 3)

TABLE I
1 2
 3 4
Item Reference No. Community Directives Item No. in Schedule 1
to—
  (a)
 (b) (c) (d) (a) (b)
  
Date Official Journal
Reference Subject matter
 Previous Directives included
 The Type Approval (Great Britain) Regulations
 The Type Approval for Goods Vehicles
Regulations

1 70/157 6.2.70 L42,
23.2.70, p.16 The permissible sound level
and the exhaust system of motor vehicles
2 70/220 20.3.70 L76,
6.4.70, p.1 Measures to be taken against
air pollution by gases from spark ignition engines of motor vehicles
3 70/221 20.3.70 L76, 6.4.70, p. 23
 Liquid fuel tanks and rear protective
devices for motor vehicles and their trailers
4 70/388 27.7.70 L176, 10.8.70, p.
12 Audible warning devices for motor
vehicles
5 71/127 1.3.71 L68,
22.3.71, p. 1 The rear-view mirrors of
motor vehicles  10
6 71/320 26.9.71 L202,
6.9.71, p. 37 The braking devices of
certain categories of motor vehicles and their trailers
7 72/245 20.6.72 L152, 6.7.72, p. 15
 The suppression of radio interference
produced by spark ignition engines fitted to motor vehicles  2A 5A
8 72/306 2.8.72 L190,
20.8.72, p. 1 The emission of pollutants
from diesel engines for use in vehicles  5 3
9 73/350 7.11.73 L321, 22.11.73, p.
33 The permissible sound level and the
exhaust system of motor vehicles 70/157  4A
10 74/132 11.2.74 L74, 19.3.74, p. 7
 The braking devices of certain categories
of motor vehicles and their trailers 71/320
11 74/151 4.3.74 L84, 28.3.74, p. 25
 Parts and characteristics of agricultural
motor vehicles (see Note 1)

12 74/290 28.5.74 L159,
15.6.74, p. 61 Measures to be taken against
air pollution by gases from spark ignition engines for motor vehicles 70/220
13 74/346 25.6.74 L191, 15.7.74, p.
1 Rear view mirrors for agricultural
motor vehicles (see Note 1)

14 74/347 25.6.74 L191,
15.7.74, p. 5 Field of vision and windscreen
wipers for agricultural motor vehicles (see Note 1)
15 74/483 17.9.74 L266, 2.10.74, p.
4 External projections of motor vehicles
  
19
16 75/322 20.5.75 L147,
9.6.75, p. 28 Suppression of radio interference
from spark ignition engines of agricultural motor vehicles (see Note 1)
17 75/443 26.6.75 L196, 26.7.75, p.
1 Reverse and speedometer equipment of
motor vehicles  20
18 75/524 25.7.75 L236,
8.9.75, p. 3 The braking devices of certain
categories of motor vehicles and their trailers 71/320
as amended by 74/132 13A

19 76/114 18.12.75 L24,
30.1.76, p. 1 Statutory plates and inscriptions
for motor vehicles and trailers

20 76/115 18.12.75 L24,
30.1.76, p. 6 Anchorages for motor vehicle
seat belts  12A
21 76/432 6.4.76 L122,
8.5.76, p. 1 Braking devices of agricultural
vehicles (see Note 1)
22 77/102 30.11.76 L32,
3.2.77, p. 32 Measures to be taken against
air pollution by gases from spark ignition engines of motor vehicles 70/220
as amended by 74/290
23 77/212 8.3.77 L66, 12.3.77, p. 33
 The permissible sound level and the
exhaust system of motor vehicles 70/157 as amended by 73/350 14B 4B, 4C, 4D
24 77/537 28.6.77 L220, 29.8.77, p.
38 Emission of pollution from diesel
engines for agricultural motor vehicles (see Note 1)
25 77/541 28.6.77 L220, 29.8.77, p.
95 Seat belts and restraint systems for
motor vehicles  12A
26 77/649 27.9.77 L267,
19.10.77, p. 1 Field of vision of motor
vehicle drivers
27 78/318 21.12.77 L81,
28.3.78, p. 49 Wiper and washer systems
of motor vehicles  22
28 78/507 19.5.78 L155,
13.6.78, p. 31 Statutory plates and inscriptions
for motor vehicles and trailers 76/114
29 78/549 12.6.78 L168, 26.6.78, p.
45 Wheel guards of motor vehicles
30 78/665 14.7.78 L223, 14.8.78, p.
48 Measures to be taken against air pollution
by gases from spark ignition engines of motor vehicles 70/220
as amended by 74/290
and 77/102 4B, 4C 2
31 78/1015 23.11.78 L349, 13.12.78, p.
21 The permissible sound level and exhaust
system of motorcycles
32 79/488 18.4.79 L128,
26.5.79, p. 1 External projections of
motor vehicles 74/483 19A
33 79/489 18.4.79 L128,
26.5.79, p. 12 The braking devices of
certain categories of motor vehicles and their trailers 71/320
as amended by 74/132
and 75/524 13B 6, 6C
34 79/490 18.4.79 L128, 26.5.79, p.
22 Liquid fuel tanks and rear under-run
protection 70/221
35 79/795 20.7.79 L239, 22.9.79, p.
1 The rear-view mirrors of motor vehicles
 71/127 10A

36 79/1073 22.11.79 L331,
27.12.79, p. 20 Field of vision and windscreen
wipers for agricultural motor vehicles 74/347
37 80/780 22.7.80 L229, 30.8.80, p.
49 Rear view mirrors for motor cycles

38 80/1269 16.12.80 L375,
31.12.80, p. 46 The engine power of motor
vehicles
39 81/334 13.4.81 L131,
18.5.81, p. 6 The permissible sound level
and exhaust system of motor vehicles 70/157 as amended by 73/350 and 77/212 14C 4B, 4C, 4D
40 81/575 29.7.81 L209, 29.7.81, p.
30 Anchorages for motor vehicle seat
belts 76/115 12A

41 81/576 29.7.81 L209,
29.7.81, p. 32 Seat belts and restraint
systems for motor vehicles 77/541 12A
42 81/643 29.7.81 L231,
15.8.81, p. 41 Field of vision of motor
vehicles drivers 77/649
43 82/318 2.4.82 L139, 19.5.82, p. 9
 Anchorages for motor vehicle seat belts
 76/115
as amended by 81/575 12A

44 82/319 2.4.82 L139,
19.5.82, p. 17 Seat belts and restraint
systems for motor vehicles 77/541 as amended by 81/576 12A
45 82/890 17.12.82 L378,
31.12.82, p. 45 Agricultural motor vehicles

46 83/351 16.6.83 L197,
20.7.83, p. 1 Air pollution by gases
from positive ignition engines of motor vehicles 70/220
as amended by 74/290, 77/102 and 78/665 4C
47 84/372 3.7.84 L196,
26.7.84, p. 47 The permissible sound
level and exhaust system of motor vehicles 70/157 as amended by 73/350, 77/212 and 81/334
48 84/424 3.9.84 L238, 6.9.84, p. 31
 The permissible sound level and exhaust
system of motor vehicles 70/157 as amended by 73/350, 77/212, 81/334 and 84/372
49 85/205 18.2.85 L90, 29.3.85, p. 1
 Mirrors 71/127 as amended by 79/795 10B
NOTE 1. This item is to be interpreted as including reference to the amendments
made by Community Directive 82/890
(item 45).

TABLE II
1 2 3 4
Item 
Reference No. ECE Regulations Item No. in Schedule 1
to—
  (a) (b) (c) (d) (a) (b)
  Number Date Subject matter 
Date of amendment The Type Approval (Great
Britain) Regulations The Type Approval
for Goods Vehicles Regulations
1 10 10 17.12.68 Radio interference suppression — 
2 5
2 10.01 10 17.12.68 Radio interference suppression 19.3.78 2A 5A

3 13.03 
13 29.5.69 Brakes 4.1.79 13C, 13D 6A,
6B, 6D
4 13.04 13 29.5.69 Brakes
 11.8.81 
13C, 13D 6A, 6B, 6D
5 13.05
 13 
29.5.69 Brakes 26.11.84 — —

6 14.01 
14 30.1.70 Anchorages for seat belts 
28.4.76 12A —
7 15.03 15 11.3.70 Emission
of gaseous pollutants 6.3.78 4B 2
8 
15.04 15 
11.3.70 Emission of gaseous pollutants
 20.10.81 4C 2
9 16.03 16 14.8.70
 Seat belts and restraint systems 9.12.79 12A
 —
10 24.01 24 23.8.71
 Emission of pollutants by a diesel engine
 11.9.73 
5 3
11 24.02 24 23.8.71 Emission of pollutants by a diesel engine 11.2.80 5A
 3A
12 24.03 24 23.8.71 Emission of pollutants by a diesel engine 20.4.86 —
 —
13 26.01 26 28.4.72
 External projections 11.9.73 19 —

14 34 
34 25.7.75 Prevention of fire risks — — —

15 34.01 
34 25.7.75 Prevention of fire risks 
18.1.79 — —
16 36 36 12.11.75 Construction
of public service vehicles 
— — —
17 39 39 11.7.78 Speedometers
 — 20 —
18 
43 43 
15.9.80 Safety glass and glazing materials
 — 15B —
19 
43.01 43 
15.9.80 Safety glass and glazing materials
 12.11.82 15B —
20 44 44 1.2.81 Child restraints — — —

21 44.01 
44 1.2.81 Child restraints 1.2.84 — —

22 64 64 1.8.85 Vehicles with
temporary-use spare wheels/tyres — — —

SCHEDULE 3
(see regulation 16)
1 
The braking requirements referred to in regulation 16(4) are set out in
the Table and are to be interpreted in accordance with 
paragraphs 2 to 5 of this Schedule.

TABLE(Schedule 3)

Number Requirement
1 The vehicle shall be equipped
with—(a) one
efficient braking system having two means of operation;(b) one efficient split braking system having one
means of operation; or(c)
two efficient braking systems each having a separate means of operation.and in the case of a vehicle first used on or after 1st January
1968, no account shall be taken of a multi-pull means of operation unless,
at first application, it operates a hydraulic, electric or pneumatic device
which causes the application of brakes with total braking efficiency not less
than 25%.
2 The vehicle shall be equipped with—(a) one efficient braking system having two means
of operation; or(b)
two efficient braking systems each having a separate means of operation.
3 
The vehicle shall be equipped with an efficient braking system.
4 
The braking system shall be so designed that in the event of failure of any
part (other than a fixed member or a brake shoe anchor pin) through or by
means of which the force necessary to apply the brakes is transmitted, there
shall still be available for application by the driver brakes sufficient under
the most adverse conditions to bring the vehicle to rest within a reasonable
distance. The brakes so available shall be applied to—(a) in the case of a track-laying vehicle, one track
on each side of the vehicle;
(b) in the case of a wheeled motor vehicle, one wheel if the vehicle
has 3 wheels and otherwise to at least half the wheels; and(c) in the case of a wheeled trailer, at least one
wheel if it has only 2 wheels and otherwise at least 2 wheels.This requirement applies to the braking systems of both a trailer
and the vehicle by which it is being drawn except that if the drawing vehicle
complies with regulation 15, Community Directive 79/489
or ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04, or 13.05, the requirements applies
only to the braking system of the drawing vehicle. It does not apply to vehicles
having split braking systems (which are subject to regulation 18(3)(b)) or to road
rollers. (The expressions `part' and `half the wheels' are to be interpreted
in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4)
respectively).
5 The braking system shall be so designed and constructed
that, in the event of the failure of any part thereof, there shall still be
available for application by the driver a brake sufficient under the most
adverse conditions to bring the vehicle to rest within a reasonable distance.

6 The braking system of a vehicle, when drawing a trailer which complies
with regulation 15, Community Directive 79/489
or ECE Regulation 13.03, 13.04 or 13.05, shall be so constructed
that, in the event of a failure of any part (other than a fixed member or
brake shoe anchor pin) of the service braking system of the drawing vehicle
(excluding the means of operation of a split braking system) the driver can
still apply brakes to at least one wheel of the trailer, if it has only 2
wheels, and otherwise to at least 2 wheels, by using the secondary braking
system of the drawing vehicle.(The expression “part”
is to be interpreted in accordance with paragraph 3).

7 The application of any means of operation of a braking system shall
not affect or operate the pedal or hand lever of any other means of operation.

8 The braking system shall not be rendered ineffective by the non-rotation
of the engine of the vehicle or, in the case of a trailer, the engine of the
drawing vehicle (steam-propelled vehicles, other than locomotives and buses,
are excluded from this requirement).
9 At least one means of operation
shall be capable of causing brakes to be applied directly, and not through
the transmission gear, to at least half the wheels of the vehicle. This requirement
does not apply to a works truck with an unladen weight not exceeding 7370
kg, or to an industrial tractor; and it does not apply to a vehicle with more
than 4 wheels if—(a) the drive is transmitted
to all wheels other than the steering wheels without the interposition of
a differential driving gear or similar mechanism between the axles carrying
the driving wheels; and(b) the brakes applied by one
means of operation apply directly to 2 driving wheels on opposite sides of
the vehicle; and(c) the brakes applied by another means
of operation act directly on all the other driving wheels.
(The expression “half the wheels” is to be interpreted in accordance
with paragraph (4)).

10 The brakes of a trailer shall come into operation automatically
on its overrun or, in the case of a track-laying trailer drawn by a vehicle
having steerable wheels at the front or a wheeled trailer, the driver of,
or some other person on, the drawing vehicle or on the trailer shall be able
to apply the brakes on the trailer.
11 The brakes of a trailer
shall come into operation automatically on its overrun or the driver of the
drawing vehicle shall be able to apply brakes to all the wheels of the trailer,
using the means of operation which applies the service brakes of the drawing
vehicle.
12 The brakes of the vehicle shall apply to all wheels other
than the steering wheels.

13 The brakes of the vehicle shall apply
to at least 2 wheels.
14 The brakes of the vehicle shall apply in the case
of a wheeled vehicle to at least 2 wheels if the vehicle has no more than
4 wheels and to at least half the wheels if the vehicle has more than 4 wheels;
and in the case of a track-laying vehicle to all the tracks.
15 The brakes
shall apply to all the wheels.

16 The parking brake shall be so designed
and constructed that—
(a) in the case of a wheeled heavy motor
car or motor car, its means of operation is independent of the means of operation
of any split braking system with which the vehicle is fitted;
(b) in the case of a motor vehicle other
than a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, either— 
(i) it is capable of being applied by direct
mechanical action without the intervention of any hydraulic, electric or pneumatic
device; or
(ii) the vehicle complies with requirement
15; and
(c) it can at all times when the vehicle
is not being driven or is left unattended be set so as— 
(i) in the case of a track-laying vehicle,
to lock the tracks; and
(ii) in the case of a wheeled vehicle, to
prevent the rotation of at least one wheel in the case of a three wheeled
vehicle and at least two wheels in the case of a vehicle with more than three
wheels.
17
 The parking brake shall be capable of
being set so as effectively to prevent two at least of the wheels from revolving
when the trailer is not being drawn.
18 The parking brake shall
be so designed and constructed that—(a) in the case of a motor vehicle, its means of
operation (whether multi-pull or not) is independent of the means of operation
of any braking system required by regulation 18
to have a total braking efficiency of not less than 50%; and(b) in the case of a trailer, its brakes can be applied
and released by a person standing on the ground by a means of operation fitted
to the trailer; and(c)
in either case, its braking force, when the vehicle is not being driven or
is left unattended (and in the case of a trailer, whether the braking force
is applied by the driver using the service brakes of the drawing vehicle or
by a person standing on the ground in the manner indicated in sub-paragraph (b)) can at all times be maintained in operation
by direct mechanical action without the intervention of any hydraulic, electric
or pneumatic device and, when so maintained, can hold the vehicle stationary
on a gradient of at least 16% without the assistance of stored energy.
2 
For the purposes of requirement 3 in the Table,
in the case of a motor car or heavy motor car propelled by steam and not used
as a bus, the engine shall be deemed to be an efficient braking system with
one means of operation if the engine is capable of being reversed and, in
the case of a vehicle first used on or after 1st January 1927, is incapable
of being disconnected from any of the driving wheels of the vehicle except
by the sustained effort of the driver.
3 
For the purpose of requirements 4 and 6 in the
Table, in the case of a wheeled motor car and of a vehicle first used on or
after 1st October 1938 which is a locomotive, a motor tractor, a heavy motor
car or a track-laying motor car, every moving shaft which is connected to
or supports any part of a braking system shall be deemed to be part of the
system.
4 
For the purpose of requirements 4 and 9 in the
Table, in determining whether brakes apply to at least half the wheels of
a vehicle, not more than one front wheel shall be treated as a wheel to which
brakes apply unless the vehicle is—
(a) a locomotive or motor
tractor with more than 4 wheels;
(b) a heavy motor car
or motor car first used before 1st October 1938;
(c) a motor car with
an unladen weight not exceeding 1020 kg;
(d) a motor car which
is a passenger vehicle but is not a bus;
(e) a works truck;
(f) a heavy motor car
or motor car with more than 3 wheels which is equipped in respect of all its
wheels with brakes which are operated by one means of operation; or
(g) a track-laying vehicle.

5 
In this Schedule a “multi-pull means of operation”
 means a device forming part of a braking
system which causes the muscular energy of the driver to apply the brakes
of that system progressively as a result of successive applications of that
device by the driver.
SCHEDULE 4
(see regulation 40)
PART I
1 

In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions
have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—

 “gas container” means a container fitted to a motor vehicle or a trailer and intended
for the storage of gaseous fuel for the purpose of the propulsion of the vehicle
or the drawing vehicle as the case may be;
 “gas cylinder” means a container fitted to a motor vehicle or a trailer and intended
for the storage of compressed gas for the purpose of the propulsion of the
vehicle or the drawing vehicle as the case may be;
 “compressed gas” means gaseous fuel under a pressure exceeding 1.0325 bar above atmospheric
pressure;
 “pipe line” means all pipes connecting a gas container or containers— 
(a) 
to the engine or the mixing device for the supply of a mixture of gas and
air to the engine; and
(b) to the filling point on the vehicle;
 “pressure pipe line”
means any part of a pipe line intended for the conveyance
of compressed gas; and
 “reducing valve” means an apparatus which automatically reduces the pressure of the gas
passing through it.
2 
Every gas container
shall—
(a) be securely
attached to the vehicle in such manner as not to be liable to displacement
or damage due to vibration or other cause; and
(b) be so placed
or insulated as not to be adversely affected by the heat from the exhaust
system.
3 

(1) Every pipe
line shall be supported in such manner as to be protected from excessive vibration
and strain.
(2) No part
of a pipe line shall be in such a position that it may be subjected to undue
heat from the exhaust system.
(3) Every pressure
pipe line shall be made of steel solid drawn.
(4) The maximum
unsupported length of a pressure pipe line shall not exceed 920 mm.
4 

(1) Every union
shall be so constructed and fitted that it will—
(a) not
be liable to work loose or develop leakage when in use; and
(b) be readily
accessible for inspection and adjustment.
(2) No union
on a pressure pipe line or on a gas cylinder shall contain a joint other than
a metal to metal joint.
5 
Every reducing
valve shall be—
(a) so fitted
as to be readily accessible; and
(b) so constructed
that there can be no escape of gas when the engine is not running.
6 

(1) Every valve
or cock intended to be subjected to a pressure exceeding 6.8948 bar shall
be of forged steel or of brass or bronze complying with the specification
contained in Part II
of this Schedule.
(2) A valve
or cock shall be fitted to the pipe line to enable the supply of gas from
the container or containers to the mixing device to be shut off.
(3) 
(a) In the
case of a pressure pipe line the valve or cock shall be placed between the
reducing valve and the container or containers and shall be readily visible
and accessible from the outside of the vehicle and a notice indicating its
position and method of operation shall be affixed in a conspicuous position
on the outside of the vehicle carrying the gas container or containers.
(b) In other
cases, if the valve or cock is not so visible and accessible as aforesaid,
a notice indicating its position shall be affixed in a conspicuous position
on the outside of the vehicle carrying the container or containers.
7 
Every pressure
gauge connected to a pressure pipe line shall be so constructed as not to
be liable to deterioration under the action of the particular gases employed
and shall be so constructed and fitted that—
(a) in the event
of failure of such pressure gauge no gas can escape into any part of the vehicle;

(b) it is not
possible owing to leakage of gas into the casing of the pressure gauge for
pressure to increase therein to such extent as to be liable to cause a breakage
of the glass thereof; and
(c) in the event
of failure of such pressure gauge the supply of gas thereto may be readily
cut off.
8 

(1) Every connection
for charging a gas container shall be outside the vehicle and in the case
of a public service vehicle no such connection shall be within 610 mm of any
entrance or exit.
(2) An efficient
shut-off valve shall be fitted as near as practicable to the filling point.
Provided that
in cases where compressed gas is not used a cock or an efficient non-return
valve may be fitted in lieu thereof.
(3) Where compressed
gas is used an additional emergency shut-off valve shall be fitted adjacent
to the valve referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph.
(4) A cap shall
be fitted to the gas filling point on the vehicle and where compressed gas
is used this cap shall be made of steel with a metal to metal joint.
9 

(1) Where a
trailer is used for the carriage of a gas cylinder, a reducing valve shall
be fitted on the trailer.
(2) No pipe
used for conveying gas from a trailer to the engine of a vehicle shall contain
compressed gas.
10 

Every part of a gas container propulsion system shall be—
(a) so placed
or protected as not to be exposed to accidental damage and shall be soundly
and properly constructed of suitable and well-finished materials capable of
withstanding the loads and stresses likely to be met with in operation and
shall be maintained in an efficient, safe and clean condition; and
(b) so designed
and constructed that leakage of gas is not likely to occur under normal working
conditions, whether or not the engine is running.
PART II
1 
The stamping
or pressing from which each valve is manufactured shall be made from bars
produced by (a) extrusion, 
(b) rolling, (c) forging, (d) extrusion and drawing, or 
(e) rolling and drawing.
2 
Each stamping or
pressing shall be heat treated so as to produce an equiaxed microstructure
in the material.
3 
All stampings
or pressings and the bars from which they are made shall be free from cracks,
laminations, hard spots, segregated materials and variations in composition.

4 
Tensile tests shall
be made on samples of stampings or pressings taken at random from any consignment.
The result of the tensile test shall conform to the following conditions—

 Yield Stress.—Not less than 231.6 N/mm
2.
 Ultimate Tensile Stress.—Not less than 463.3 N/mm
2.
 Elongation on 50 mm gauge length.—Not less than 25%.

Note.—When the gauge length
is less than 50 mm the required elongation shall be proportionately reduced.

The fractured test piece shall be free from piping
and other defects (see paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule).
SCHEDULE 5
(see regulations 40 and 96)
1 
In this Schedule—
 “check valve” means a device which permits the flow of gas in one direction and prevents
the flow of gas in the opposite direction;
 “design pressure” means the pressure which a part of a gas system has been designed and
constructed safely to withstand;
 “double-check valve”
means a device which consists of two check valves in
series and which permits the flow of gas in one direction and prevents the
flow of gas in the opposite direction;
 “excess flow valve” means a device which automatically and instantaneously reduces to a minimum
the flow of gas through the valve when the flow rate exceeds a set value;

 “fixed gas container”
means a gas container which is attached to a vehicle
permanently and in such a manner that the container can be filled without
being moved;
 “gas container” means any container, not being a container for the carriage of gas as
goods, which is fitted to or carried on a motor vehicle or trailer and is
intended for the storage of gas for either— 
(a) the propulsion of the motor vehicle, or
(b) the operation of a gas-fired appliance;
 “high pressure” means a pressure exceeding 1.0325 bar absolute;
 “high pressure pipeline”
 means a pipeline intended to contain
gas at high pressure;
 “pipeline” means any pipe or passage connecting any two parts of a gas propulsion
system of a vehicle or of a gas-fired appliance supply system on a vehicle
or any two points on the same part of any such system;
 “portable gas container”
 means a gas container which may be attached
to a vehicle but which can readily be removed;
 “pressure relief valve”
 means a device which opens automatically
when the pressure in the part of the gas system to which it is fitted exceeds
a set value, reaches its maximum flow capacity when the set valve is exceeded
by 10% and closes automatically when the pressure falls below a set value
; and
 “reducing valve” means a device which automatically reduces the pressure of the gas passing
through it, and includes regulator devices.
2 

(1) Every gas container
shall—
(a) be capable
of withstanding the pressure of the gas which may be stored in the container
at the highest temperature which the gas is likely to reach,
(b) if fitted
inside the vehicle be so arranged as to prevent so far as is practicable the
possibility of gas entering the engine, passenger or living compartments due
to leaks or venting from the container or valves, connections and gauges immediately
adjacent to it, and the space containing these components shall be so ventilated
and drained as to prevent the accumulation of gas,
(c) be securely
attached to the vehicle in such a manner as not to be liable to displacement
or damage due to vibration or other cause, and
(d) be so placed
and so insulated or shielded as not to suffer any adverse effect from the
heat of the exhaust system of any engine or any other source of heat.
(2) Every portable
gas container shall be either—
(a) hermetically
sealed, or
(b) fitted
with a valve or cock to enable the flow of gas from the container to be stopped.

(3) Every fixed
gas container shall—
(a) be fitted
with—
(i) at
least one pressure relief valve, and
(ii) 
at least one manually operated valve which may be extended by an internal
dip tube inside the gas container so as to indicate when the container has
been filled to the level corresponding to the filling ratio specified in the
British Standards Institution Specification for Filling Ratios and Developed
Pressure for Liquefiable and Permanent Gases (as defined, respectively, in
paragraphs 3.2 and 3.5 of the said Specification) published in May 1976 under
the number BS 5355, and
(b) be conspicuously
and permanently marked with its design pressure.
(4) If any fixed
gas container is required to be fitted in a particular attitude or location,
or if any device referred to in sub-paragraph (3) above requires the container
to be fitted in such a manner, then it shall be conspicuously and permanently
marked to indicate that requirement.
(5) If the operation
of any pressure relief valve or other device referred to in sub-paragraph
(3) above may cause gas to be released from the gas container, an outlet shall
be provided to lead such gas to the outside of the vehicle so as not to suffer
any adverse effect from the heat of the exhaust system of any engine or any
other source of heat, and that outlet from the pressure relief valve shall
not be fitted with any other valve or cock.
3 

(1) Every connection
for filling a fixed gas container shall be on the outside of the vehicle.

(2) There shall
be fitted to every fixed gas container either—
(a) a manually
operated shut-off valve and an excess flow valve, or
(b) a manually
operated shut-off valve and a single check valve, or
(c) a double-check
valve.and all parts of these valves in contact with gas shall be made
entirely of suitable metal except that they may contain non-metal washers
and seals provided that such washers and seals are supported and constrained
by metal components.
(3) In every case
where a pipe is attached to a gas container for the purpose of filling the
gas container there shall be fitted to the end of the pipe furthest from the
gas container a check valve or a double-check valve.
(4) There shall
be fitted over every gas filling point on a vehicle a cap which shall—

(a) prevent
any leakage of gas from the gas filling point,
(b) be secured
to the vehicle by a chain or some other suitable means,
(c) be made
of suitable material, and
(d) be fastened
to the gas filling point by either a screw thread or other suitable means.

4 

(1) Every pipeline
shall be fixed in such a manner and position that—
(a) it will
not be adversely affected by the heat of the exhaust system of any engine
or any other source of heat,
(b) it is protected
from vibration and strain in excess of that which it can reasonably be expected
to withstand, and
(c) in the
case of a high pressure pipeline it is so far as is practicable accessible
for inspection.
(2) Save as provided
in sub-paragraph (4) below, every high pressure pipeline shall be—
(a) a rigid
line of steel, copper or copper alloy of high pressure hydraulic grade, suitable
for service on road vehicles and designed for a minimum service pressure rating
of not less than 75 bar absolute, and
(b) effectively
protected against, or shielded from, or treated so as to be resistant to,
external corrosion throughout its length unless it is made from material which
is corrosion resistant under the conditions which it is likely to encounter
in service.
(3) No unsupported
length of any high pressure pipeline shall exceed 600 mm.
(4) Flexible hose
may be used in a high pressure pipeline if—
(a) it is reinforced
either by stainless steel wire braid or by textile braid,
(b) its length
does not exceed 500 mm, and
(c) save in
the case of a pipeline attached to a gas container for the purpose of filling
that container the flexibility which it provides is necessary for the construction
or operation of the gas system of which it forms a part.
(5) If a high pressure
pipeline or part of such a pipeline is so constructed or located that it may,
in the course of its normal use (excluding the supply of fuel from a gas container),
contain liquid which is prevented from flowing, a relief valve shall be incorporated
in that pipeline.
5 

(1) Every union
and joint on a pipeline or gas container shall be so constructed and fitted
that it will—
(a) not be
liable to work loose or leak when in use, and
(b) be readily
accessible for inspection and maintenance.
(2) Every union
on a high pressure pipeline or on a gas container shall be made of suitable
metal but such a union may contain non-metal washers and seals provided that
such washers and seals are supported and constrained by metal components.

6 
Every reducing valve shall be made of suitable
materials and be so fitted as to be readily accessible for inspection and
maintenance.
7 

(1) Every pressure
relief valve which is fitted to any part of a gas system (including a gas
container) shall—
(a) be made
entirely of suitable metal and so constructed and fitted as to ensure that
the cooling effect of the gas during discharge shall not prevent its effective
operation,
(b) be capable,
under the most extreme temperatures likely to be met (including exposure to
fire), of a discharge rate which prevents the pressure of the contents of
the gas system from exceeding its design pressure,
(c) have a
maximum discharge pressure not greater than the design pressure of the gas
container,
(d) be so designed
and constructed as to prevent unauthorised interference with the relief pressure
setting during service, and
(e) have outlets
which are—
(i) so
sited that so far as is reasonably practicable in the event of an accident
the valve and its outlets are protected from damage and the free discharge
from such outlets is not impaired, and
(ii) 
so designed and constructed as to prevent the collection of moisture and other
foreign matter which could adversely affect their performance.
(2) The pressure
at which a pressure relief valve is designed to start lifting shall be clearly
and permanently marked on every such valve.
(3) Every pressure
relief valve which is fitted to a gas container shall communicate with the
vapour space in the gas container and not with any liquefied gas.
8 

(1) A valve or
cock shall be fitted to every supply pipeline as near as practicable to every
fixed gas container and such valve or cock shall by manual operation enable
the supply of gas from the gas container to the gas system to be stopped,
and save as provided in sub-paragraph (2) below, shall—
(a) if fitted
on the outside of the vehicle, be readily visible and accessible from the
outside of the vehicle, or
(b) if fitted
inside the vehicle be readily accessible for operation and be so arranged
as to prevent so far as is practicable the possibility of gas entering the
engine, passenger or living compartments due to leaks, and the space containing
the valve or cock shall be so ventilated and drained as to prevent the accumulation
of gas in that space.
(2) Where a fixed
gas container supplies no gas system other than a gas propulsion system and
the gas container is so located that it is not practicable to make the valve
or cock referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above readily accessible there shall
be fitted an electrically-operated valve which shall either be incorporated
in the valve or cock referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above or be fitted immediately
downstream from it and shall—
(a) be constructed
so as to open when the electric power is applied and to close when the electric
power is cut off,
(b) be so fitted
as to shut off the supply of gas from the gas container to the gas system
when the engine is not running, and
(c) if fitted
inside the vehicle be so arranged as to prevent as far as is practicable the
possibility of gas entering the engine, passenger or living compartments due
to leaks, and the space containing the valve shall be so ventilated and drained
as to prevent the accumulation of gas in that space.
(3) A notice clearly
indicating the position, purpose and method of operating every valve or cock
referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) above shall be fixed—
(a) in all
cases, in a conspicuous position on the outside of the vehicle, and
(b) in every
case where the valve or cock is located inside the vehicle in a conspicuous
position adjacent to the gas container.
(4) In the case
of a high pressure pipeline for the conveyance of gas from the gas container
an excess flow valve shall be fitted as near as practicable to the gas container
and such valve shall operate in the event of a fracture of the pipeline or
other similar failure.
(5) All parts of
every valve or cock referred to in this paragraph which are in contact with
gas shall be made of suitable metal, save that they may contain non-metal
washers and seals provided that such washers and seals are supported and constrained
by metal components.
9 
Every gauge connected to a gas container or
to a pipeline shall be so constructed as to be unlikely to deteriorate under
the action of the gas used or to be used and shall be so constructed and fitted
that—
(a) no gas can
escape into any part of the vehicle as a result of any failure of the gauge,
and
(b) in the event
of any failure of the gauge the supply of gas to the gauge can be readily
stopped.
Provided that the requirement
specified in sub-paragraph (b) above shall
not apply in respect of a gauge fitted as an integral part of a gas container.

10 

(1) Every gas
propulsion system shall be so designed and constructed that—
(a) the supply
of gas to the engine is automatically stopped by the operation of a valve
when the engine is not running at all or is not running on the supply of gas,
and
(b) where
a reducing valve is relied on to comply with sub-paragraph 
(a) above, the supply of gas to the engine is automatically stopped
by the operation of an additional valve when the engine is switched off.
(2) Where the
engine of a vehicle is constructed or adapted to run on one or more fuels
as alternatives to gas, the safety and efficiency of the engine and any fuel
system shall not be impaired by the presence of any other fuel system.
11 
In the case of a bus there shall be fitted
as near as practicable to the gas container a valve which shall stop the flow
of gas into the gas supply pipeline in the event of—
(a) the angle
of tilt of the vehicle exceeding that referred to in regulation 6 of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions
of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981, and

(b) the deceleration
of the vehicle exceeding 5g.
12 
Every part of a gas-fired appliance shall be—

(a) so designed
and constructed that leakage of gas is unlikely to occur, and
(b) constructed
of materials which are compatible both with each other and with the gas used.

13 
Every gas-fired appliance shall be—
(a) so located
as to be easily inspected and maintained,
(b) so located
and either insulated or shielded that its use shall not cause or be likely
to cause danger due to the presence of any flammable material,
(c) so constructed
and located as not to impose undue stress on any pipe or fitting, and
(d) so fastened
or located as not to work loose or move in relation to the vehicle.
14 
With the exception of catalytic heating appliances,
every appliance of the kind described in regulation 96(3)(b) or (c)
which is fitted to a motor vehicle shall be fitted with a flue which shall
be—
(a) connected
to an outlet which is on the outside of the vehicle,
(b) constructed
and located so as to prevent any expelled matter from entering the vehicle,
and
(c) located so
that it will not cause any adverse effect to, or suffer any adverse effect
from, the exhaust outlet of any engine or any other source of heat.
15 
Every part of a gas propulsion system or a
gas-fired appliance system, excluding the appliance itself, shall be—

(a) so far as
is practicable so located or protected as not to be exposed to accidental
damage,
(b) soundly and
properly constructed of materials which are compatible with one another and
with the gas used or to be used and which are capable of withstanding the
loads and stresses likely to be met in operation, and
(c) so designed
and constructed that leakage of gas is unlikely to occur.
SCHEDULE 6
(see regulation 41)
The requirements referred to
in regulation 41
are as follows—

1 
The outlet of every
exhaust pipe fitted to a minibus shall be either at the rear or on the off
side of the vehicle.
2 

(1) Every minibus shall
be fitted with at least—
(a) one service door
on the near side of the vehicle; and
(b) one emergency
door either at the rear or on the off side of the vehicle so, however, that
any emergency door fitted on the off side of the vehicle shall be in addition
to the driver's door and there shall be no requirement for an emergency door
on a minibus if it has a service door at the rear in addition to the service
door on the near side.
(2) No minibus shall
be fitted with any door on its off side other than a driver's door and an
emergency door.
3 
Every emergency
door fitted to a minibus, whether or not required pursuant to these Regulations,
shall—
(a) be clearly marked,
in letters not less than 25 mm high, on both the inside and the outside, “EMERGENCY
DOOR” or “FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY”, and the means of its
operation shall be clearly indicated on or near the door;
(b) if hinged, open outwards;

(c) be capable of being
operated manually; and
(d) when fully opened,
give an aperture in the body of the vehicle not less than 1210 mm high nor
less than 530 mm wide.
4 

(1) Every power-operated
door fitted to a minibus shall—
(a) incorporate transparent
panels so as to enable a person immediately inside the door to see any person
immediately outside the door;
(b) be capable of
being operated by a mechanism controlled by the driver of the vehicle when
in the driving seat;
(c) be capable, in
the event of an emergency or a failure of the supply of power for the operation
of the door, of being opened from both inside and outside the vehicle by controls
which—
(i) over-ride
all other controls,
(ii) are placed
on, or adjacent to, the door, and
(iii) are accompanied
by markings which clearly indicate their position and method of operation
and state that they may not be used by passengers except in an emergency;

(d) have a soft edge
so that a trapped finger is unlikely to be injured; and
(e) be controlled
by a mechanism by virtue of which if the door, when closing, meets a resistance
exceeding 150 Newtons, either
 —the door will cease to close and begin to open, or

 —the closing force will cease and the door will become
capable of being opened manually.
(2) No minibus shall
be equipped with a system for the storage or transmission of energy in respect
of the opening or closing of any door which, either in normal operation or
if the system fails, is capable of adversely affecting the operation of the
vehicle's braking system.
5 

No minibus shall be fitted with—
(a) a door which can
be locked from the outside unless, when so locked, it is capable of being
opened from inside the vehicle when stationary;
(b) a handle or other
device for opening any door, other than the driver's door, from inside the
vehicle unless the handle or other device is designed so as to prevent, so
far as is reasonably practicable, the accidental opening of the door, and
is fitted with a guard or transparent cover or so designed that it must be
raised to open the door;
(c) a door which is not
capable of being opened, when not locked, from inside and outside the vehicle
by a single movement of the handle or other device for opening the door;
(d) a door in respect
of which there is not a device capable of holding the door closed so as to
prevent any passenger falling through the doorway;
(e) a side door which
opens outwards and is hinged at the edge nearest the rear of the vehicle except
in the case of a door having more than one rigid panel;
(f) a door, other than
a power-operated door, in respect of which there is not either—
(i) a slam lock of
the two-stage type; or
(ii) a device by
means of which the driver, when occupying the driver's seat, is informed if
the door is not securely closed, such device being operated by movement of
the handle or other device for opening the door or, in the case of a handle
or other device with a spring-return mechanism, by movement of the door as
well as of the handle or other device.
Provided that the provisions
of sub-paragraphs (a), (c), (d) and (f) of this paragraph shall not apply in respect
of a near side rear door forming part of a pair of doors fitted at the rear
of a vehicle if that door is capable of being held securely closed by the
other door of that pair.
6 

(1) Save as provided
in sub-paragraph (2), every minibus shall be fitted with mirrors or other
means so that the driver, when occupying the driver's seat, can see clearly
the area immediately inside and outside every service door of the vehicle.

(2) The provisions of
sub-paragraph (1) shall be deemed to be satisfied in respect of a rear service
door if a person 1.3 metres tall standing 1 metre behind the vehicle is visible
to the driver when occupying the driver's seat.
7 

(1) Save as provided
in sub-paragraph (2), there shall be unobstructed access from every passenger
seat in a minibus to at least two doors one of which must be on the nearside
of the vehicle and one of which must be either at the rear or on the offside
of the vehicle.
(2) Access to one only
of the doors referred to in sub-paragraph (1) may be obstructed by either
or both of—
(a) a seat which
when tilted or folded does not obstruct access to that door; and
(b) a lifting platform
or ramp which—
(i) does not
obstruct the handle or other device on the inside for opening the door with
which the platform or ramp is associated, and
(ii) when the
door is open, can be pushed or pulled out of the way from the inside so as
to leave the doorway clear for use in an emergency.
8 
Every
minibus shall be fitted as respects every side service door with a grab handle
or a hand rail to assist passengers to get on or off the vehicle.
9 

(1) No seat shall be
fitted to any door of a minibus.
(2) Every seat and every
wheelchair anchorage fitted to a minibus shall be fixed to the vehicle.
(3) No seat, other than
a wheelchair, fitted to a minibus shall be less than 400 mm wide, and in ascertaining
the width of a seat no account shall be taken of any arm-rests, whether or
not they are folded back or otherwise put out of use.
(4) No minibus shall
be fitted with an anchorage for a wheelchair in such a manner that a wheelchair
secured to the anchorage would face either side of the vehicle.
(5) No minibus shall
be fitted with a seat—
(a) facing either
side of the vehicle and immediately forward of a rear door unless the seat
is fitted with an arm-rest or similar device to guard against a passenger
on that seat falling through the doorway; or
(b) so placed that
a passenger on it would, without protection, be liable to be thrown through
any doorway which is provided with a power-operated door or down any steps,
unless the vehicle is fitted with a screen or guard which affords adequate
protection against that occurrence.
10 

(1) Save as provided
in sub-paragraph (2) no minibus shall be fitted with any—
(a) electrical circuit
which is liable to carry a current exceeding that for which it was designed;

(b) cable for the
conduct of electricity unless it is suitably insulated and protected from
damage;
(c) electrical circuit,
other than a charging circuit, which includes any equipment other than—

(i) a starter
motor,
(ii) a glow
plug,
(iii) an ignition
circuit, and
(iv) a device
to stop the vehicle's engine,unless it includes a fuse or circuit breaker so, however, that
one fuse or circuit breaker may serve more than one circuit; or
(d) electrical circuit
with a voltage exceeding 100 volts unless there is connected in each pole
of the main supply of electricity which is not connected to earth a manually-operated
switch which is—
(i) capable
of disconnecting the circuit, or, if there is more than one, every circuit,
from the main supply,
(ii) not capable
of disconnecting any circuit supplying any lamp with which the vehicle is
required to be fitted, and
(iii) located
inside the vehicle in a position readily accessible to the driver.
(2) The provisions of
sub-paragraph (1) do not apply in respect of a high tension ignition circuit
or a circuit within a unit of equipment.
11 
No minibus shall be
fitted with a fuel tank or any apparatus for the supply of fuel which is in
the compartments or other spaces provided for the accommodation of the driver
or passengers.
12 
Every minibus
shall be provided with lamps to illuminate every step at a passenger exit
or in a gangway.
13 

Every minibus, including all bodywork and fittings, shall be soundly and properly
constructed of suitable materials and maintained in good and serviceable condition,
and shall be of such design as to be capable of withstanding the loads and
stresses likely to be met in the normal operation of the vehicle.
14 
In this Schedule—

 “driver's door” means a door fitted to a minibus for use by the driver;
 “emergency door” means a door fitted to a minibus for use by passengers in an emergency
; and
 “service door” means a door fitted to a minibus for use by passengers in normal circumstances
.
SCHEDULE 7
PART I
(see regulation 42)
A fire extinguisher
which complies in all respects with the specification for portable fire extinguishers
issued by the British Standards Institution numbered BS 5423; 1980 as amended
by Amendment No. 1 (reference number AMD 4110 published on 31st December 1982)
and Amendment No. 2 (reference number AMD 4544 published on 30th April 1984)
and which—
(a) contains water with a minimum test fire
rating of 8A, or
(b) contains foam with a minimum test fire
rating of 8A and 21B, or
(c) contains, and is marked to indicate that
it contains, halon 1211, or halon 1301, with a minimum test fire rating of
21B.

PART II
(see regulation 43)

(i) Ten antiseptic wipes, foil packed;
(ii) One conforming disposable bandage (not
less than 7.5 cm wide);
(iii) Two triangular bandages;
(iv) One packet of 24 assorted adhesive dressings;

(v) Three large sterile unmedicated ambulance
dressings (not less than 15.0 cm × 20.0 cm);
(vi) Two sterile eye pads, with attachments;

(vii) Twelve assorted safety pins; and
(viii) One pair of rustless blunt-ended scissors.


SCHEDULE 8
(see regulation 66)
PART IParticulars to be shown
on plate for motor vehicles (including motor vehicles forming part of articulated
vehicles)
1. Manufacturer's name.
2. Vehicle type.
3. Engine type and power 
(a).
4. Chassis or serial number.
5. Number of axles.
6. Maximum axle weight for each axle (b).
7. Maximum gross weight 
(c).
8. Maximum train weight 
(d).
9. Maximum weight in Great Britain for each
axle (b) (e).
10. Maximum gross weight in Great Britain (c) (e). 
(a) The power need not
be shown in the case of a motor vehicle manufactured before 1st October 1972
(hereinafter in this Schedule referred to as “an excepted vehicle”)
and shall not be shown in the case of any motor vehicle which is propelled
otherwise than by a compression ignition engine.
(b) This weight as respects each axle is
the sum of the weights to be transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels
of that axle.
(c) This weight is the sum of the weights
to be transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of the motor vehicle
(including any load imposed by a trailer, whether forming part of an articulated
vehicle or not, on the motor vehicle).
(d) This weight is the sum of the weights
to be transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of the motor vehicle
and of any trailer drawn, but this item need not be completed where the motor
vehicle is not constructed to draw a trailer.
(b), (c), (d) References to the weights to
be transmitted to the road surface by all or any of the wheels of the vehicle
or of any trailer drawn are references to the weights so to be transmitted
both of the vehicle or trailer and of any load or persons carried by it.
(e) This item need not be completed in the
case of an excepted vehicle or in the case of a vehicle which is a locomotive
or motor tractor.

PART IIParticulars to be shown
on plate for trailers (including trailers forming part of articulated vehicles)

1. Manufacturer's name.
2. Chassis or serial number.
3. Number of axles.
4. Maximum weight for each axle (a).
5. Maximum load imposed on drawing vehicle (b).
6. Maximum gross weight 
(c).
7. Maximum weight in Great Britain for each
axle (a) (e).
8. Maximum gross weight in Great Britain (c) (f).
9. Year of manufacture 
(d). 
(a) This weight as respects each axle is
the sum of the weights to be transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels
of that axle.
(b) Only for trailers forming part of articulated
vehicles or where some of the weight of the trailer or its load is to be imposed
on the drawing vehicle. This item need not be completed in the case of a converter
dolly.
(c) This weight is the sum of the weights
to be transmitted to the road surface by all the wheels of the trailer, including
any weight of the trailer to be imposed on the drawing vehicle.
(a), (b), (c) References to the weights to
be transmitted to the road surface by all or any of the wheels of the trailer
are references to the weight so to be transmitted both of the trailer and
of any load or persons carried by it and references to the weights to be imposed
on the drawing vehicle are references to the weights so to be imposed both
of the trailer and of any load or persons carried by it except where only
the load of the trailer is imposed on the drawing vehicle.
(d) This item need not be completed in the
case of a trailer manufactured before 1st April 1970.
(e) This item need not be completed in the
case of a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1972.
(f) This item need not be completed in the
case of a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1972 or which forms part
of an articulated vehicle.

PART III
1 
The power of an engine, which is to be shown
only in the case of a compression ignition engine on the plate in respect
of item 3 in Part I
of this Schedule, shall be the amount in kilowatts equivalent to the installed
power output shown in a type test certificate issued—
(a) by a person
authorised by the Secretary of State for the type of engine to which the engine
conforms; and
(b) in accordance
with either—
(i) the
provisions relating to the installed brake power output specified in the British
Standard Specification for the Performance of Diesel Engines for Road Vehicles
published on 19th May 1971 under the number BS AU 141a: 1971;
(ii) 
the provisions relating to the net power specified in Community Directive 80/1269 but
after allowance has been made for the power absorbed by such equipment, at
its minimum power setting, driven by the engine of the vehicle as is fitted
for the operation of the vehicle (other than its propulsion) such power being
measured at the speed corresponding to the engine speed at which maximum engine
power is developed; or
(iii) 
the provisions of Annex 10 of ECE Regulation 24.02
as further amended with effect from 15th February 1984 relating to the method
of measuring internal combustion engine net power, but after allowance has
been made for the power absorbed by any disconnectable or progressive cooling
fan, at its maximum setting, and by any other such equipment, at its minimum
power setting, driven by the engine of the vehicle as is fitted for the operation
of the vehicle (other than its propulsion), such power being measured at the
speed corresponding to the engine speed at which maximum engine power is developed.

2 

(1) The weights
to be shown on the plate in relation to items 6, 7 and 8 in Part I
and in relation to items 4, 5 and 6 in Part II
shall be the weight limits at or below which the vehicle is considered fit
for use, having regard to its design, construction and equipment and the stresses
to which it is likely to be subject in use, by the Secretary of State if the
vehicle is one to which the Type Approval for Goods Vehicles Regulations apply,
and by the manufacturer if the vehicle is one to which those Regulations do
not apply.Provided that,
where alterations are made to a vehicle which may render the vehicle fit for
use at weights which exceed those referred to above in this paragraph and
shown on the plate—
(a) 
there may be shown on the plate, in place of any of those weights, such new
weights as the manufacturer of the vehicle or any person carrying on business
as a manufacturer of motor vehicles or trailers (or a person duly authorised
on behalf of that manufacturer or any such person) or a person authorised
by the Secretary of State considers to represent the weight limits at or below
which the vehicle will then be fit for use, having regard to its design, construction
and equipment and to those alterations and to the stresses to which it is
likely to be subject in use; and
(b) 
the name of the person who has determined the new weights shall be shown on
the plate as having made that determination and, where he is a person authorised
by the Secretary of State, his appointment shall be so shown.
(2) In relation
to a vehicle manufactured on or after 1st October 1972, in the foregoing paragraph—

(a) the
references to equipment shall not be treated as including a reference to the
type of tyres with which the vehicle is equipped; and
(b) for
the words “weight limits at or below”
in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words “maximum weights at”.
3 
The weights to be shown on the plate in respect
of—
(a) item 9 in Part I of this Schedule
shall be the weights shown at item 6 in that Part and in respect of item 7 in Part II of this Schedule
shall be the weights shown at item 4 in that Part, in each case reduced so
far as necessary to indicate the maximum weight applicable to each axle of
the vehicle, if the vehicle is not to be used in contravention of regulations 23, 75, 78 or 79,
and if the tyres with which the vehicle is equipped are not, as respects strength,
to be inadequate to support the weights to be so shown at item 9 and item
7;
(b) item 10
in the said Part I shall be the weight shown at item 7 in that Part and in
respect of item 8 in the said Part II shall be the weight shown at item 6
in that Part, in each case reduced so far as necessary to indicate the maximum
permissible weight applicable if the vehicle is not to be used in contravention
of regulation 75
if the tyres with which the vehicle is equipped are not, as respects strength,
to be inadequate to support the weights to be so shown at item 10 and item
8.
4 

(1) Subject
to sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph weights on plates first affixed to
a vehicle on or after 1st October 1972 shall be shown in kilograms and weights
on plates first so affixed before that date shall be shown in tons and decimals
thereof.
(2) Where
a new weight is first shown on a plate by virtue of the proviso to paragraph 2(1) the
weight shall be shown as if it was on a plate first affixed to a vehicle on
the date it was first shown.
5 
All letters and figures shown on the plate shall
be not less than 6mm in height.
6 
In this Schedule references to the manufacturer
of a motor vehicle or trailer are in relation to—
(a) a vehicle
constructed with a chassis which has not previously formed part of another
vehicle, references to the person by whom that chassis was made;
(b) any other
vehicle, references to the person by whom that vehicle was constructed.
SCHEDULE 9
(see regulation 69)
1 
The plate required by regulation 69 shall be firmly
attached to a part of the motor cycle which is not normally subject to replacement
during the life of the motor cycle.
2 
The plate shall be in the form shown in the
diagram in this paragraph, shall have dimensions not less than those shown
in that diagram and shall show the information provided for in that diagram
and detailed in the Notes below.
Notes:
1. The categories are “standard motor
cycle” and “moped”.
2. The details are— 
(a) for standard motor cycles— 
(i) the engine capacity,
(ii) the maximum engine power, and
(iii) the power to weight ratio,
() provided that the details under (ii) and (iii) need not be
shown for a vehicle first used before 1st January 1982;
(b) for mopeds— 
(i) the engine capacity,
(ii) the kerbside weight, and
(iii) the maximum speed.
3. The vehicle identification number (VIN)
shall be marked in the form used by the manufacturer to identify any one individual
vehicle.
4. In the case of a plate fitted to a vehicle
first used before 1st January 1982 or to a moped this dimension shall be 40
mm.
3 
The information on the plate shall be shown
in characters not less than 4 mm in height and in the positions on the plate
indicated in the diagram above.
4 
No information, other than that provided for
in the diagram above, shall be marked within the rectangle which is shown
in that diagram.
5 
In this Schedule and, in respect of the definition
of “moped”, in regulations 54
and 57—

 “maximum engine power”
means the maximum net power the motor cycle engine will
develop, in kilowatts, when measured in accordance with the test conditions
specified in the International Standard number ISO 4106 developed by the technical
committee of the International Organisation for Standardisation, and approved
by member bodies, including the United Kingdom, and published under the reference
ISO 1978 4106–09–01;
 “moped” means 
a motor cycle which— 
(a) has a kerbside weight not exceeding 250 kg, and
(b) 
if propelled by an internal combustion engine, has an engine with a cylinder
capacity which does not exceed 50 cc, and
(c) 
is designed to have a maximum speed not exceeding 30 mph when driven under
the conditions set out in paragraph 6.

 “power to weight ratio”
means the ratio of the maximum engine power to the kerbside
weight of the vehicle measured, as regards the maximum engine power, in kilowatts
and, as regards the kerbside weight, in 1000 kg;
 “standard motor cycle”
means a motor cycle which is not a moped.

6 
A motor cycle shall regarded as complying with
paragraph (c) of the definition of “moped”
in paragraph 5
if it cannot exceed 35 mph when tested under the following conditions—

(a) the surface on which
it is tested shall be dry asphalt or concrete;
(b) the rider shall be
a person not exceeding 75 kg in weight;
(c) no passenger or load
shall be carried;
(d) the test route shall
be so located that acceleration to, and deceleration from, maximum speed can
take place elsewhere than on the test route itself;
(e) the test route shall
not have a gradient exceeding 5%;
(f) the motor cycle shall
be ridden in opposite directions along the test route and the speed recorded
for the purpose of the test shall (in order to minimise the effect of wind
resistance and gradient) be the average of speeds shown for each direction;

(g) when being driven
along the test route, the motor cycle shall be driven in such manner and in
such gear as to achieve the maximum speed of which it is capable; and
(h) if the motor cycle
is fitted with a device which can, without the use of specialist tools or
equipment, be readily modified or removed so as to increase its maximum speed,
the test shall be carried out with the device in the modified condition or,
as the case may be, without the device.
SCHEDULE 10
(see regulation 70)

SCHEDULE 11
(see regulations 75, 77 and 79)
PART I
(see regulation 75)

1 2 3 4 5
Item
 No. of axles Distance between foremost and rearmost axles (metres) Weight not exceeded by any axle (kg) Maximum permitted laden weight (kg)
1 2 Less than 2.65  14,230 (unless
item 2 applies)
2 2 
Closely spaced on a trailer where the distance between the foremost axle of
the trailer and the rear axle of the drawing vehicle is at least 4.2 The maximum weight
permitted by Regulation 78 16,260
3 2 At least 2.65  16,260
4 2 At least 3.0 if the vehicle is a bus
the laden weight of which is calculated in accordance with regulation 78(5)  17,000
5 2 At least 3.0 if the vehicle
is a trailer  18,000

6 3 
Less than 3.0 10,170 16,260

7 3 
At least 3.0 10,170 18,290

8 3 
At least 3.2 8,130 20,330

9 3 
At least 3.9 10,170 20,330

10 3 
At least 3.9 8,640 22,360

11 3 
At least 4.6 10,170 22,360

12 3 
At least 4.9 9,400 24,390

13 3 
At least 5.1 10,170 24,390

14 4 or more Less than 3.7 10,170 18,290

15 4 or more At least 3.7 8,640 20,330

16 4 or more At least 4.6 8,640 22,360

17 4 or more At least 4.7 8,640 24,390

18 4 or more At least 5.0 9,150 24,390

19 4 or more At least 5.6 9,150 26,420

20 4 or more At least 6.0 9,660 26,420

21 4 or more At least 5.9 9,150 28,450

22 4 or more At least 6.3 9,660 28,450

23 4 or more At least 6.3 9,400 30,490

24 4 or more At least 6.5 9,660 30,490
PART II
(see regulation 75)

1 2 3 4 5
Item
 No. of axles Distance between foremost and rearmost axles (metres) Weight not exceeded by any axle not being the foremost
or rearmost (kg) Maximum permitted laden
weight (kg)

1 2 
At least 2.0 — 14,230

2 2 
At least 2.4 — 16,260

3 2 
At least 2.7 — 17,000 (provided that the vehicle has a total train weight
of more than 32,520 kg.)

4 3 or more At least 3.0 8,390 20,330

5 3 or more At least 3.8 8,640 22,360

6 3 or more At least 4.0 10,500 22,500

7 3 or more At least 4.3 9,150 24,390

8 3 or more At least 4.9 10,500 24,390
PART III
(see regulation 77)

1 2 3 4
Item Relevant axle spacing (metres) Maximum weight (kg) 
Minimum overall length (metres)
 (a) Where motor vehicle
has 2 axles (b) Where motor vehicle has
more than 2 axles

1 At least 2.0 At least 2.0 20,330 —

2 At least 2.2 At least 2.2 22,360 —

3 At least 2.6 At least 2.6 23,370 —

4 At least 2.9 At least 2.9 24,390 —

5 At least 3.2 At least 3.2 25,410 —

6 At least 3.5 At least 3.5 26,420 —

7 At least 3.8 At least 3.8 27,440 —

8 At least 4.1 At least 4.1 28,450 —

9 At least 4.4 At least 4.4 29,470 —

10 At least 4.7 At least 4.7 30,490 —

11 At least 5.0 At least 5.0 31,500 —

12 At least 5.3 At least 5.3 32,520 —

13 At least 5.5 At least 5.4 33,000 10.0
14 At least 5.8 At least 5.6 
34,000 10.3
15 
At least 6.2 At least 5.8 35,000 
10.5
16 At least 6.5 At least
6.0 36,000 11.0

17 At least 6.7 At least 6.2 37,000 11.5
18 At least 6.9 At least 6.3 
38,000 12.0
PART IV
(see regulation 77)

1 2 3
Item Type of articulated vehicle 
Maximum permitted weight (kg)
1 Motor vehicle and
semi-trailer having a total of 3 axles 
24,390
2 Motor vehicle and semi-trailer having a total of 4 axles
or motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1973 and semi-trailer having
a total of 5 or more axles 32,520
3 
Motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1973 and semi-trailer having
a total of 5 or more axles 38,000
PART V
(see regulation 79(2))

1 2 3 4 5
Item
 Distance between axles (metres) Maximum permitted weight when weight of neither
axle exceeds one half of the specified weight (kg) Maximum permitted weight in cases not within column (3) when weight
of neither axle exceeds 10170 kg (kg) 
Maximum permitted weight in cases not within column (3) or (4) (kg)
1 At least 1.02 16,260
 12,200 
10,500
2 At least 1.05 17,280
 15,260 
10,500
3 At least 1.20 18,300
 16,270 
15,260
4 At least 1.35 18,800
 17,280 
16,500
5 At least 1.50 19,320
 18,300 
18,000
6 At least 1.80 20,000
 19,000 
19,000
7 At least 1.85 20,340
 19,320 
19,320
PART VI
(see regulation 79(3))

1 
2 3
Item Smallest distance
between any adjoining axles of three closely-spaced axles (metres) Maximum permitted weight of each axle (kg)
1 At least 0.70 6,000

2 At least 0.80 6,200
3 
At least 0.90 6,400
4 At least
1.00 6,600
5 At least 1.10
 6,900
6 At least 1.20 7,100

7 At least 1.30 7,500
PART VII
(see regulation 79(4))

1 2 3 
4
Item Distance between foremost and rearmost axles (metres)
 Maximum intermediate
axle weight (kg) Maximum permitted total
weight (kg)

1 Less than 3.0 10,170 18,290
2 
At least 3.0 8,390 20,330

3 At least 3.8 8,640 22,360
4 At least
4.6 9,150 24,390
SCHEDULE 12
(see regulations 81 and 82)
PART I
1 

(a) Before
using on a road a vehicle or vehicles to which this paragraph applies, the
owner shall give notice of the intended use to the Chief Officer of Police
for any area in which he proposes to use the vehicle or vehicles. The notice
shall be given so that it is received by the date after which there are at
least two working days before the date on which the use of the vehicle or
vehicles is to begin, and shall include the following details—
(i) time,
date and route of the proposed journey, and
(ii) 
in a case to which regulation 82(2)
applies, the overall length and width of the vehicle by which the load is
carried and the width of the lateral projection or projections of its load,

(iii) 
in a case to which regulation 82(4)(a)
applies, the overall length and width of each vehicle by which the load is
carried, the length of any forward or rearward projection and, where the load
rests on more than one vehicle, the distance between the vehicles,
(iv) 
in a case to which regulation 82(4)(b)
applies, the overall length of the combination of vehicles and the length
of any forward or rearward projection of the load, and
(v) in
a case to which regulation 82(7) and (8)
applies, the overall length of the vehicle and the length of any forward or
rearward projection of the load or special appliance or apparatus.The Chief Officer of Police for any police area may, at his discretion,
accept a shorter period of notice or fewer details.
(b) The vehicle
or vehicles shall be used only in accordance with the details at (a) subject to any variation in the time, date or
route which may be directed by—
(i) any
such Chief Officer of Police to the owner of the vehicle or vehicles, or
(ii) 
a police constable to the driver in the interests of road safety or in order
to avoid undue traffic congestion by halting the vehicle or vehicles in a
place on or adjacent to the road on which the vehicle or vehicles are travelling.

(c) In this
paragraph—
(i) “Chief
Officer of Police” has, in relation
to England and Wales, the same meaning as in the Police Act 1964, and in relation
to Scotland, the same meaning as in the Police (Scotland) Act 1967,

(ii) “working
day” means a day which is not a
Sunday, a bank holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, and
(iii) “bank holiday”
 means a day which is a bank holiday
by or under the Banking and Financial Dealings
Act 1971, either generally or in the locality
in which the road is situated.
2 
At least one person
in addition to the person or persons employed in driving a motor vehicle to
which this paragraph applies shall be employed—
(a) in attending
to that vehicle and its load and any other vehicle or vehicles drawn by that
vehicle and the load or loads carried on the vehicle or vehicles so drawn,
and
(b) to give
warning to the driver of the said motor vehicle and to any person of any danger
likely to be caused to any such other person by reason of the presence of
the said vehicle or vehicles on the road.
Provided that, where
three or more vehicles as respects which the conditions in this paragraph
are applicable are travelling together in convoy, it shall be a sufficient
compliance with this paragraph if only the foremost and rearmost vehicles
in the convoy are attended in the manner prescribed in this paragraph.
For the purpose of this paragraph when a motor vehicle is drawing
a trailer or trailers—
(i) any person
employed in pursuance of section 34
of the 1972 Act in attending that vehicle or any such trailer shall be treated
as being an attendant required by this paragraph so long as he is also employed
to discharge the duties mentioned in this paragraph; and
(ii) when
another motor vehicle is used for the purpose of assisting in their propulsion
on the road, the person or persons employed in driving that other motor vehicle
shall not be treated as a person or persons employed in attending to the first-mentioned
vehicle or any vehicle or vehicles drawn thereby.
3 

(a) Every forward
and rearward projection to which this paragraph applies shall be fitted with—

(i) an
end marker, except in the case of a rearward projection which is fitted with
a rear marking in accordance with the Lighting Regulations, and
(ii) 
where required by sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of this paragraph, two or more side markers;
which shall be of the size, shape and colour described in Part II of this Schedule.
(b) the end
marker shall be so fitted that—
(i) it
is as near as is practicable in a transverse plane,
(ii) 
it is not more than 0.5 m from the extreme end of the projection,
(iii) 
the vertical distance between the lowest point of the marker and the road
surface is not more than 2.5 m,
(iv) 
it, and any means by which it is fitted to the projection, impedes the view
of the driver as little as possible, and
(v) it
is clearly visible within a reasonable distance to a person using the road
at the end of the vehicle from which the projection extends;
(c) where the
forward projection exceeds 2 m or the rearward projection exceeds 3 m, one
side marker shall be fitted on the right hand side and one on the left hand
side of the projection so that—
(i) each
marker is as near as is practicable in a longitudinal plane,
(ii) 
no part extends beyond the end of the projection,
(iii) 
the vertical distance between the lowest part of each marker and the surface
of the road is not more than 2.5 m,
(iv) 
the horizontal distance between each marker and the end marker or, as the
case may be, the rear marking carried in accordance with the Lighting Regulations
does not exceed 1 m, and
(v) each
marker is clearly visible within a reasonable distance to a person using the
road on that side of the projection;
(d) where—

(i) a forward
projection exceeds 4.5 m, or
(ii) 
a rearward projection exceeds 5 mextra side markers shall be fitted on either side of the projection
so that the horizontal distance between the extreme projecting point of the
vehicle from which the projection extends and the nearest point on any side
marker from that point, and between the nearest points of any adjacent side
markers on the same side does not exceed—
 2.5 m in the case of a forward projection, or
 3.5 m in the case of a rearward projection.For the purposes of this sub-paragraph the expression “the vehicle”
 shall not include any special appliance
or apparatus or any part thereof which is a forward projection or a rearward
projection within the meaning of regulation 81;

(e) the extra
side markers required by this sub-paragraph shall also meet the requirements
of (i), (iii) and (v) of sub-paragraph (c);
(f) every marker
fitted in accordance with this paragraph shall be kept clean and unobscured
and during the hours of darkness be illuminated by a lamp which renders it
readily visible from a reasonable distance and which is so shielded that its
light, except as reflected from the marker, is not visible to other persons
using the road.
4 

A projection to which this paragraph applies shall be rendered clearly visible
to other persons using the road within a reasonable distance, in the case
of a forward projection, from the front thereof or, in the case of a rearward
projection, from the rear thereof and, in either case, from either side thereof.

PART II
(see paragraph 3(a) of this
Schedule)