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

3.  –

(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–

“TABLE I

(regulation 25(1))

1	2	3	4
Item	Class of vehicle	Date of first use	Requirements
1	Vehicles which are of one ormore of the following descriptions, namely– (a) goods vehicles, (b) trailers, (c) buses, (d) vehicles of a class mentioned in column 2 in Table III	Before 1st April 1991	The requirements of paragraphs (5) and (6)
2	Vehicles which are of one ormore of the following descriptions– (a) goods vehicles, (b) trailers, (c) buses, (d) vehicles of a class mentioned in column 2 in Table III, and do not fall within item 3 below	On or after1st April 1991	The requirements of paragraphs (5), (6) and (7)
3	Vehicles of a class mentioned in paragraph (2)	On or after1st April 1991	The requirements of paragraph (5)”.

(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.

TABLE III

(regulation 25(7A))

1	2	3
Item	Class of vehicle	Speed (mph)
1	Agricultural motor vehicles	20
2	Agricultural trailers	20
3	Agricultural trailed appliances	20
4	Agricultural trailed appliance conveyors	20
5	Works trailers	18”.

(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”.