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83.—(1) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.
(regulation 83(1))
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Class of vehicles | Exceptions |
| 1 | A straddle carrier | — |
| 2 | An invalid carriage | — |
| 3 | An articulated bus | — |
| 4 | A bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus | (a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or (b) 1 trailer having an overall length, including the draw-bar, not exceeding 5 m provided that the overall length of the combination does not exceed 15 m |
| 5 | A locomotive | 3 trailers |
| 6 | A motor tractor | 1 trailer if laden, 2 trailers if neither is laden |
| 7 | A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4 | 2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement 1 trailer in any other case |
| 8 | An agricultural motor vehicle | (a) in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or (b) in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances— (i) 2 unladen agricultural trailers, or (ii) 1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural trailed appliance, or (iii) 2 agricultural trailed appliances |
(2) For the purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—
(a)an unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and
(b)a towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural trailed appliance.
(3) No track-laying motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.
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