Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends regulation 6 of the 1989 Regulations which relates to the maximum overall length of vehicles and vehicle combinations and regulation 4 amends regulation 10 of those Regulations so as to modify the requirements as to the maximum permitted overhang in relation to heavy motor cars.

Regulations 5 to 8 make provision as to turning circles of buses and articulated vehicles by amending regulations 12, 12A and 12B of the 1989 Regulations and inserting a new regulation 12D as to the turning circle of a heavy motor car or a heavy motor car drawing a trailer which is not a semi-trailer.

Regulations 9 and 10 respectively amend regulations 33 (speedometers) and 49 (rear under-run protection) of the 1989 Regulations by substituting references to the most recent EC Directives and regulation 11 inserts a new regulation 71B requiring the fitting to certain vehicles of plates showing the dimensions. Regulation 12 makes consequential amendments to Schedule 2.

Copies of the Directives can be obtained from The Stationery Office Bookshop, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD.