Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Amendments to regulation 23 (tyre loads and speed ratings)

6.  Regulation 23(1) of the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

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

(2) In paragraph (7A)(2), after the words “shall not apply to” there shall be inserted the words “a tyre fitted to the axle of” and for the words “it” there shall be substituted the words “the vehicle”.

(3) After the table in paragraph (7A) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(7B) Paragraph (7C) applies where a tyre fitted to the axle of a vehicle—

(a) bears a speed category symbol and load-capacity index, being marks that were moulded on to or into the tyre at the time that it was manufactured;

(b) is designed and manufactured so as to be capable of operating safely at the speed and load indicated by those marks; and

(c) is designed so as to be capable of being fitted to the axle of a vehicle of a class specified in item 1, 2, 3 or 4 in column 2 of Table III in paragraph 7A.

(7C) In the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (7B), paragraph (7) shall not apply to the tyre if—

(a) the vehicle is being driven or drawn at a speed that does not exceed the speed indicated by the speed category symbol or 50 mph (whichever is the less), and

(b) the load on the tyre does not exceed the load indicated by the load capacity index.”.

(1)

Regulation 23 was substituted by S.R. 1992 No. 111, regulation 7

(2)

Paragraph (7A) was inserted by S.R. 1992 No. 509, regulation 3(8)