Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Vehicles for carrying or drawing abnormal indivisible loads

19.  The Department authorises the use on roads of heavy motor cars and trailers specially designed and constructed for the carriage of abnormal indivisible loads and of locomotives and tractors specially designed and constructed to draw trailers specially so designed and constructed notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations, subject to the following restrictions and conditions and in all cases to the further restrictions and conditions specified in Article 20—

(a) in a case where Article 25, 26, 28 or 29 applies to the conditions contained in such of those Articles as are applicable to that case;

(b) in a case where the overall width of the vehicle or of the vehicle together with the width of any lateral projection or projections of its load exceeds 5 metres, to the conditions contained in Article 27.