PART IGENERAL

Classification of Vehicles and Application of Regulations5.

(1)

For the purposes of these Regulations motor vehicles to which they apply are classified as follows:—

Class I:

Light motor bicycles

F1Class II:

motor bicycles

F1Class III:

Light motor vehicles other than motor bicycles

Class IV:

Motor cars and heavy motor cars not being vehicles within F2Classes 111, V, VI or VII

Class V:

F3(a)

Large passenger-carrying vehicles,

(b)

Public service vehicles which are—

(i)

of a type specified in paragraph (3), and

(ii)

constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 seated passengers, and

(c)

Play buses

Class VI:

Public service vehicles other than those of a type specified in paragraph (3)

F4Class VII:

Goods vehicles of which the design gross weight is more than 3000 kilograms but does not exceed 3500 kilograms

and (except where otherwise provided in these Regulations) any reference in these Regulations to a class of vehicles shall be construed accordingly.

(2)

Save as provided in Regulation 6, these Regulations apply to every vehicle of a class specified in paragraph (1).

(3)

The public service vehicles mentioned in paragraph (1) as included in Class V are public service vehicles F5which may lawfully be used on a road in the absence of a certificate of initial fitness by virtue of —

(a)

F6section 23(7) of the Transport Act 1985 (a bus being used to provide a community bus service), or

(b)

section 46 of the 1981 Act (a school bus belonging to a local education authority and being used to provide free school transport and carrying as fare-paying passengers persons other than those for whom the free school transport is provided, and a school bus being used, when it is not being used to provide free school transport, to provide a local bus service).

F7or (c) section 21(2) of the Transport Act 1985 (a small bus operating under a permit granted under section 19 of that Act).