The Excepted Vehicles (Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979) Order 2007

5.  After paragraph 3 insert—

“Agricultural material handlers

3A.— (1) An agricultural material handler is an excepted vehicle.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) above an “agricultural material handler” means a vehicle which is—

(a) designed and constructed primarily for use otherwise than on roads,

(b) designed to lift goods or burden, and

(c) used on public roads solely for —

(i) purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture or forestry;

(ii) cutting verges bordering public roads; or

(iii) cutting hedges or trees bordering public roads or bordering verges which border public roads.”.