The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/2710
• Sections: 5

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

Section 2

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

(2) The Secretary of State is satisfied that–

(a) it is requisite that the provisions of regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall apply as from 1st January 1992 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 provisions will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby.

Section 3

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(1) Regulation 25 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for the words “paragraphs (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3), (4), and (7A)”.

(3) For Table I there shall be substituted–

(regulation 25(1))

Vehicles which are of one ormore of the following descriptions, namely–

goods vehicles,

trailers,

buses,

vehicles of a class mentioned in column 2 in Table III

Vehicles which are of one ormore of the following descriptions–

goods vehicles,

trailers,

buses,

vehicles of a class mentioned in column 2 in Table III,

and do not fall within item 3 below

Vehicles of a class mentioned in paragraph (2)

(4) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

(2) The classes of vehicle referred to in item 3 in column 2 of Table I are–

(a) engineering plant;

(b) track-laying vehicles;

(c) vehicles equipped with tyres of speed category Q;

(d) works trucks; and

(e) motor vehicles with a maximum speed not exceeding 30 mph, not being vehicles of a class specified in–

(i) items 2 and 3 of Table II; or

(ii) paragraph (7A) or sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of this paragraph;

or trailers while being drawn by such vehicles.

(5) In paragraph (4), for the words “that tyre shall” onwards there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (7) shall not apply to that tyre while it is being used for those purposes.”

(6) In paragraph (6) for the word “maintained” there shall be substituted “manufactured”.

(7) In Table II—

(a) in column 4 for “load capacity index” there shall be substituted “load-capacity index” and for “Tyres marked in accordance with ECE Regulation 30.02” there shall be substituted “Tyres marked in accordance with ECE Regulation 30, 30.01 or 30.02”;

(b) in item 1 in column 2 there shall be added at the end “other than an agricultural motor vehicle”;

(c) in item 2 in column 3 for “25” there shall be substituted “The maximum speed of the vehicle”;

(d) in item 3 in column 3 for “40” there shall be substituted “The maximum speed of the vehicle”;

(e) in item 4 in column 3 for “50” there shall be substituted “The maximum speed of the vehicle”; and

(f) in item 7 in column 2 there shall be added “, an agricultural motor vehicle, an agricultural trailer, an agricultural trailed appliance or an agricultural trailed appliance conveyor”.

(8) In paragraph (7), for “ECE Regulation 30.02” there shall be substituted “ECE Regulation 30, 30.01, 30.02”.

(9) After paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(7A) The requirements of paragraphs (6) and (7) shall not apply to a vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of Table III while it is being driven or drawn at a speed not exceeding that specified in that item in column 3 of that Table.

(regulation 25(7A))

(10) In paragraph 8 for “load capacity index” wherever it occurs there shall be substituted “load-capacity index”.

(11) In paragraph (9)–

(a) in the definition of “load-capacity index” for “paragraph 2.26” there shall be substituted “paragraph 2.27”; and

(b) in the definition of “speed category” for “paragraph 2.27” there shall be substituted “paragraph 2.28”.

Section 4

In regulation 27(4)–

(a) in paragraph (e)(ii) for “do” there shall be substituted “does”; and

(b) in paragraph (f) for “situated in” there shall be substituted “comprising”.

Section 5

In Schedule 2 in Table II–

(a) after item 13 there shall be inserted the following items—

(b) item 13A shall be renumbered as item 13C.