The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992

Amendments to regulation 75 (maximum permitted laden weight of a vehicle)

4.—(1) Regulation 75 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the Table in regulation 75—

(a) in item 1—

(i) in the entry in column 2, for “2,” there shall be substituted “1A, 2,” and there shall be added at the end the words “(see regulation 78(3) to (6) in relation to buses)” and

(ii) for the entry in column 3, there shall be substituted “The weight determined in accordance with Part I of Schedule 11”;

(b) after item 1, there shall be inserted the following item—

“1A

A wheeled heavy motor car or motor car which is not described initem 2, 4, or 5, which complies with the relevant braking requirementand in which— (a) every driving axle not being a steering axle is fitted with twin tyres; and (b) either every driving axle is fitted with road friendly suspension or no axle has an axle weight exceeding 9,500kg.

The weight determined in accordance with Part IA of Schedule 11”

(c) for item 4, there shall be substituted the following item—

“4

An articulated bus (see regulation 78(3) to (5))

27,000”

(3) After paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3A) Nothing in item 1 or 1A of the Table shall prevent a vehicle being used on a road if—

(a) a plating certificate in respect of the vehicle was in force immediately before the 1st January 1993; and

(b) the laden weight of the vehicle does not exceed the weight shown in that certificate as being the weight not to be exceeded in Great Britain”.

(4) In paragraph (4)—

(a) for the words “In this regulation and regulation 76 —” there shall be substituted the words “In this Part of these Regulations and in Schedule 11 —”; and

(b) before the definition of “balanced agricultural trailer” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““air spring” means a spring operated by means of air or other compressible fluid under pressure;

“air suspension” means a suspension system in which at least 75 per cent of the spring effect is caused by an air spring.”

(5) After paragraph (4), there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(5) For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations and Schedule 11, an axle shall be regarded as fitted with a road friendly suspension if its suspension is—

(a) an air suspension, or

(b) a suspension, not being an air suspension, which is regarded as being equivalent to an air suspension for the purposes of Community Directive 92/7.

(6) For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations and Schedule 11, an axle shall be regarded as fitted with twin tyres if it would be regarded as fitted with twin tyres for the purposes of Community Directive 92/7(1).”

(1)

“Community Directive” is defined in regulation 3(2) of and Schedule 2 to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. A relevant amendment to Schedule 2 is made by regulation 8 of these Regulations.