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13A—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), this regulation applies to an articulated vehicle having an overall length exceeding 15.
5m.
(2) This regulation does not apply to an articulated vehicle, the semi-trailer of which–
(a)was manufactured before the 1st April 1990, [F2and]
F3(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)has an overall length that does not exceed the overall length it had on that date.
(3) This regulation does not apply to an articulated vehicle the semi-trailer of which is–
(a)a car transporter,
(b)a low loader,
(c)a stepframe low loader, or
(d)constructed and normally used for the conveyance of indivisible loads of exceptional length.
(4) Every vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be able to move on either lock so that, disregarding the things set out in paragraph (i)(a) to (m) in the definition of “overall width” in the Table in regulation 3(2), no part of it projects outside the area contained between concentric circles with radii of 12.5m and 5.3m.]
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 13A, 13B inserted (19.3.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/317), regs. 1, 5(2) (with reg. 2(a))
F2Word in reg. 13A(2)(a) inserted (29.6.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1163), regs. 1, 4
F3Reg. 13A(2)(b) omitted (29.6.1990) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1163), regs. 1, 4
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