The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998

Amendment of regulation 7 (length)

4.—(1) Regulation 7 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the Table in paragraph (1)—

(a) for items 1 and 1A there shall be substituted—

“1	A motor vehicle (other than a motor vehicle such as is mentioned in item 1A) drawing one trailer which is not a semi-trailer.	18.75
1A	Subject to paragraph (3C), a motor vehicle manufactured before 1st June 1998 and drawing one trailer, where the combination does not meet the requirements of paragraph (5A) and the trailer is not a semi-trailer.	18”;

and

(b) in item 3 after the words “the requirements of” there shall be inserted “para-graph (6)”.

(3) After paragraph (3B) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3C) Item 1A and the words “(other than a motor vehicle such as is mentioned in item 1A)” in item 1 of the Table shall cease to have effect after 31st December 2006.”

(4) After paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(5XA) A motor vehicle drawing a trailer which is not a semi-trailer shall (unless it is a vehicle such as is mentioned in item 1A of the Table in paragraph (1)) comply with the requirements of paragraph (5A).

The words in parenthesis in this paragraph shall cease to have effect after 31st December 2006.”

(5) In paragraph (5A)(b) for “16 m” there shall be substituted “16.4 m”.

(6) In paragraph (7A) for the words from “as the distance from” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted—

“(a) in relation to a vehicle which was manufactured after 1st June 1998, as a reference to the foremost king-pin or, as the case may be, the foremost king-pin position; and

(b) in relation to any other vehicle, as a reference to the rearmost king-pin or, as the case may be, the rearmost king-pin position.”