C2 Part VII Miscellaneous and General

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Interpretation

C1C3C4189 Certain vehicles not to be treated as motor vehicles.

1

For the purposes of the Road Traffic Acts—

a

a mechanically propelled vehicle being an implement for cutting grass which is controlled by a pedestrian and is not capable of being used or adapted for any other purpose,

b

any other mechanically propelled vehicle controlled by a pedestrian which may be specified by regulations made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section and section 140 of the M1Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and

c

an electrically assisted pedal cycle of such a class as may be prescribed by regulations so made,

is to be treated as not being a motor vehicle.

2

In subsection (1) above “controlled by a pedestrian” means that the vehicle either—

a

is constructed or adapted for use only under such control, or

b

is constructed or adapted for use either under such control or under the control of a person carried on it, but is not for the time being in use under, or proceeding under, the control of a person carried on it.