The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1163
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 29th June 1990.

Section 2 Preliminary

(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 shall be further amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that—

(a) it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 3 shall apply as from 29th June 1990 to vehicles registered under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 before the expiration of one year from the making of these Regulations; and

(b) notwithstanding that the said provision will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 7 (length of vehicle and combination of vehicles)

(1) Regulation 7 shall be amended as follows.

(2) After sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3) there shall be added—

or

(c) an articulated vehicle, the semi-trailer of which is a low loader manufactured before 1st April 1991.

(3) In paragraph (6), the words “or if there is more than one king-pin, the foremost one,” in sub-paragraph (a) and the words “or, if there is more than one king-pin, the rearmost one,” in sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

(4) After paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(7A) Where a semi-trailer has more than one king-pin or is constructed so that it can be used with a king-pin in different positions, references in this regulation to a distance from the king-pin shall be construed as the distance from the rearmost king-pin or, as the case may be, the rearmost king-pin position.

Section 4 Amendments to regulation 13A (turning circle—articulated vehicles other than those incorporated in a car transporter

In regulation 13A (2), the word “and” shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (a) and sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.