The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Certain vehicles not to be treated as motor vehicles

6.—(1) For the purposes of the Road Traffic Orders—

(a) a mechanically propelled vehicle being an implement for cutting grass which is controlled by a pedestrian and is not capable of being used or adapted for any other purpose;

(b) any other mechanically propelled vehicle controlled by a pedestrian which may be prescribed for the purposes of this Article; and

(c) an electrically assisted pedal cycle of such a class as may be so prescribed,

is to be treated as not being a motor vehicle.

(2) In paragraph (1) “controlled by a pedestrian” means that the vehicle either—

(a) is constructed or adapted for use only under such control; or

(b) is constructed or adapted for use either under such control or under the control of a person carried on it, but is not for the time being in use under, or proceeding under, the control of a person carried on it.