The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 CLASSES OF VEHICLE TO WHICH THESE REGULATIONS DO NOT APPLY

1.  Dual-purpose vehicles not constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated vehicle.

2.  Mobile cranes as defined in Schedule 3 to the 1971 Act.

3.  Break-down vehicles.

4.  Engineering plant and plant, not being engineering plant, which is movable plant or equipment being a motor vehicle or trailer (not constructed primarily to carry a load) especially designed and constructed for the special purposes of engineering operations.

5.  Trailers being drying or mixing plant designed for the production of asphalt or of bituminous or tar macadam.

6.  Tower wagons as defined in—

(a) section 4(2) of the 1971 Act(1); or

(b) Schedule 4 to that Act.

7.  Road construction vehicles as defined in section 4(2) of the 1971 Act and road rollers.

8.  Vehicles designed for fire fighting or fire salvage purposes.

9.  Works trucks, straddle carriers used solely as works trucks, and works trailers.

10.  Electrically-propelled motor vehicles.

11.  Vehicles used solely for one or both of the following purposes—

(a) clearing frost, ice or snow from roads by means of a snow plough or similar contrivance, whether forming part of the vehicle or not, and

(b) spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow.

12.  Motor vehicles used for no other purpose than the haulage of lifeboats and the conveyance of the necessary gear of the lifeboats which are being hauled.

13.  Living vans the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1525 kilograms.

14.  Vehicles constructed or adapted for, and used primarily for the purpose of, carrying equipment permanently fixed to the vehicle which equipment is used for medical, dental, veterinary, health, educational, display, clerical or experimental laboratory purposes, such use—

(a) not directly involving the sale, hire or loan of goods from the vehicle; and

(b) not directly or indirectly involving drain cleaning or sewage or refuse collection.

15.  Trailers which have no other brakes than a parking brake and brakes which automatically come into operation on the over-run of the trailer.

16.  Vehicles exempted from duty under the 1971 Act by virtue of section 7(1) of that Act and any trailer drawn by such a vehicle.

17.  Agricultural motor vehicles and agricultural trailed appliances.

18.  Agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliance conveyors drawn on roads only by an agricultural motor vehicle.

19.  Public service vehicles (as defined in section 1 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(2)).

20.  Licensed taxis (as defined in section 13(3) of the Transport Act 1985(3)).

21.  Vehicles used solely for the purposes of funerals.

22.  Goods vehicles to which any of the prescribed construction and use requirements do not apply by virtue of either of the following items in the Table in regulation 4(4) of the Construction and Use Regulations namely—

(a) item 1 (which relates to vehicles proceeding to a port for export);

(b) item 4 (which relates to vehicles in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters).

23.  Vehicles equipped with a new or improved equipment or types of equipment and used, solely by a manufacturer of vehicles or their equipment or by an importer of vehicles, for or in connection with the test or trial of any such equipment.

24.  Motor vehicles brought into Great Britain and displaying a registration mark mentioned in regulation 5 of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Regulations 1971(4), a period of twelve months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into Great Britain.

25.  Motor vehicles for the time being licensed under the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(5).

26.  Vehicles having a base or centre in any of the following islands, namely, Arran, Bute, Great Cumbrae, Islay, Mull, Tiree or North Uist from which the use of the vehicle on a journey is normally commenced.

27.  Trailers brought into Great Britain and having a base or centre in a country outside Great Britain from which the use of the vehicle on a journey is normally commenced, a period of twelve months not having elapsed since the vehicle in question was last brought into Great Britain.

28.  Track-laying vehicles.

29.  Steam propelled vehicles.

30.  Motor vehicles first used before 1st January 1960, used unladen and not drawing a laden trailer, and trailers manufactured before 1st January 1960 and used unladen. For the purposes of this paragraph any determination as to when a motor vehicle is first used shall be made as provided in regulation 3(3) of the Construction and Use Regulations.

31.  Motor vehicles constructed, and not merely adapted, for the purpose of street cleansing, or the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies and which are either—

(a) three-wheeled vehicles, or

(b) vehicles which—

(i) are incapable by reason of their construction of exceeding a speed of 20 miles per hour on the level under their own power, or

(ii) have an inside track width of less than 810 millimetres.

32.  Vehicles designed and used for the purpose of servicing or controlling or loading or unloading aircraft while so used—

(a) on an aerodrome as defined in section 105(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(6);

(b) on roads outside such an aerodrome if, except when proceeding directly from one part of such an aerodrome to another part thereof, the vehicles are unladen and are not drawing a laden trailer.

33.  Vehicles designed for use, and used on an aerodrome mentioned in paragraph 32, solely for the purpose of road cleansing, the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies or cesspools.

34.  Vehicles provided for police purposes and maintained in workshops approved by the Secretary of State as suitable for such maintenance, being vehicles provided in England and Wales by a police authority or the Receiver for the metropolitan police district, or, in Scotland, by a police authority or a joint police committee.

35.  Heavy motor cars or motor cars constructed or adapted for the purpose of forming part of an articulated vehicle and which are used for drawing only a trailer falling within a class of vehicle specified in paragraph 13, 14 or 15 of this Schedule or a trailer being used for or in connection with any purpose for which it is authorised to be used on roads by an order under section 42(1) of the 1972 Act, being an order authorising that trailer or any class or description of trailers comprising that trailer to be used on roads.

36.  Play buses.

(1)

1971 c. 10; section 4(2) was amended by the Finance Act 1986 (c. 41), Schedule 2, paragraph 2.

(2)

1981 c. 14.

(3)

1985 c. 67.

(4)

S.I. 1971/937.

(5)

1972 c. 10 (No. 6).

(6)

1982 c. 16.