The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No.1) Regulations 1991

Amendment to regulation 3 (interpretation)

3.  In regulation 3(1) before the expression “examination” and the meaning assigned to it there shall be inserted the following:

““design gross weight” means—

(a)

in the case of a vehicle equipped with a Ministry plate, the weight shown thereon as the design weight or, if no weight is so shown thereon, the weight shown thereon as the weight not to be exceeded in Great Britain;

(b)

in the case of a vehicle which is not equipped aith a Ministry plate, but which is equipped with a plate in accordance with regulation 66 of the Construction and Use Regulations, the maximum gross weight shown on the plate in respect of item 7 of Part I of Schedule 8 to those Regulations; and

(c)

in any other case, the weight which the vehicle is designed or adapted not to exceed when in normal use and travelling on a road laden;”.