The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

2.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 6 there shall be substituted—

“6.   Tower wagons as defined in—

(a) paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(2) as originally enacted; or

(b) paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 to that Act as originally enacted.”

(3) In paragraph 7, for the words “section 4(2) of the 1971 Act” there shall be substituted the words “section 61 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 as originally enacted”.

(4) For paragraph 16, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“16.   A motor vehicle at a time when it is being used on a public road during any calendar week if—

(a) it is being used only in passing from land in the occupation of the person keeping the vehicle to other land in his occupation, and

(b) it has not been used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week,

and to a trailer drawn by a motor vehicle that is being used on a public road in such circumstances.

• For the purposes of this paragraph “public road” has the meaning given in section 62(1) the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.”

(1)

S.I. 1988/1478.

(2)

1994 c. 22; paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 17 and 21 of Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22) are repealed by the Part V of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4).