The Use of Invalid Carriages on Highways Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”) make provision regarding the requirements with which invalid carriages must comply, and the conditions in accordance with which invalid carriages must be used, in order to benefit from certain exemptions from road traffic legislation which are set out in section 20(1) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.

These Regulations substitute regulation 7 of the 1988 Regulations to introduce a new requirement which relates to invalid carriages which include necessary user equipment. Necessary user equipment is part of, or is attached to, an invalid carriage upon construction or adaption and is necessary to satisfy a clinical, postural, hygienic, caring or nursing requirement of the usual user. An invalid carriage which includes necessary user equipment but does not exceed the unladen weight limit for its Class when the weight of the necessary user equipment is not included must satisfy the requirement that its unladen weight must not exceed 200 kilograms.

An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs to business and the voluntary sector is available from the website of the Department for Transport (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport). It is also annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum for this instrument available alongside this instrument on the legislation.gov.uk website.