Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 No. 454

SCHEDULE 15 Conditions to be complied with in relation to the use of vehicles carrying wide or long loads or vehicles carrying loads or having fixed appliances or apparatus which project

Part I

Attendants

2.  The conditions referred to in regulation 94(4)(ii)(B), (6), (9) and (11)(b)(ii) are—

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) at least one person in addition to the person employed in driving the vehicle shall be employed—

(a) in attending to that vehicle and its load and any other vehicle drawn by that vehicle and the load carried on the vehicle so drawn, and

(b) to give warning to the driver of the motor vehicle and to any person of any danger likely to be caused to him by reason of the presence of the said vehicle on the road.

(2) Where three or more vehicles are travelling together in convoy, it shall be sufficient compliance with this paragraph if only the foremost and rearmost vehicles in the convoy are attended as prescribed in sub-paragraph (1).

(3) When a motor vehicle is drawing a trailer—

(i) any person employed in pursuance of regulation 105 in attending that vehicle or trailer shall be treated as being an attendant required by this paragraph so long as he is also employed to discharge the duties mentioned in sub-paragraph (1); and

(ii) when another motor vehicle is used for the purpose of assisting in their propulsion on the road, the person employed in driving that other motor vehicle shall not be treated as a person employed in attending to the first-mentioned vehicle or any vehicle drawn by it.