The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017

Amendment of the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988

15.  In Schedule 2—

(a) omit paragraphs 2 to 6,

(b) for paragraph 7 substitute—

“7.   Road rollers.”,

(c) in paragraph 10 at the end insert “first registered before 1st March 2015”,

(d) for paragraph 17 substitute—

“17.   Category T tractors, except those that are—

(a) capable by their design and construction of exceeding 40 kilometres per hour,

(b) used for the haulage of a load or burden more than 15 miles from their operating base, and

(c) where the haulage of the load or burden is not in relation to an agriculture, horticulture or forestry operation,

where “operating base” means the premises occupied by the keeper of the tractor at which the keeper carries out haulage work using that tractor, or the premises at which the keeper is employed.

17A.   Agricultural motor vehicles (not being category T tractors) and agricultural trailed appliances.”,

(e) omit paragraph 26,

(f) in paragraph 30 after “and used unladen” insert “, and which have not undergone substantial changes in the technical characteristics of their main components”,

(g) omit paragraph 35,

(h) after paragraph 37 insert—

“38.   Mobile machinery, being any self-propelled vehicle which is designed and constructed specifically to perform work which, because of its construction characteristics, is not suitable for carrying passengers or for transporting goods. Machinery mounted on a motor vehicle chassis shall not be considered mobile machinery.

39.   Showman’s vehicles and showman’s goods vehicles (as defined in section 62(1) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1)) and only operating in Great Britain.

40.   Vehicles with a maximum design speed of less than 15.5 miles per hour.”.

(1)

1994 c.22.