The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981

Classification of Vehicles and Application of Regulations

5.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations motor vehicles to which they apply are classified as follows:—

Class I:	Light motor bicycles
Class II:	Motor bicycles other than light motor vehicles
Class III:	Light motor vehicles
Class IV:	Motor cars and heavy motor cars not being vehicles within Classes III, V or VI
Class V:	Large passenger-carrying vehicles and public service vehicles of a type specified in paragraph (3)
Class VI:	Public service vehicles other than those of a type specified in paragraph (3)

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 in respect of which no certificate of initial fitness has been issued and which are lawfully in use without one by virtue of—

(a) section 45 of the 1981 Act (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).