{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-goods-vehicles-testing-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-etc-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-goods-vehicles-testing-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-etc-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348278798",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Testing, Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-goods-vehicles-testing-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-etc-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981",
  "text": "(1) The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 are amended as follows.\n(2) At the end of paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (interpretation), insert—\n““zero-emission vehicle” means a vehicle without an internal combustion engine, or with an internal combustion engine that has emissions of CO2 of zero grams per kilometre”.\n(3) In regulation 5 (classification of vehicles and application of Regulations)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (j), substitute—\n“(j) Class VII: Goods vehicles—\n(i) in EU category N1 of which the design gross weight exceeds 3,000 kilograms but does not exceed 3,500 kilograms; and\n(ii) in EU category N2—\n(aa) of which the design gross weight exceeds 3,500 kilograms but does not exceed 4,250 kilograms, and\n(bb) which are zero-emission vehicles;”;\n(b) in paragraph (6), in sub-paragraph (b), for “and N1” substitute “N1 and N2”.\n(4) In regulation 6 (exemptions), in paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (v), for “3500 kilograms” substitute “3,500 kilograms, excluding a zero-emission vehicle the design gross weight of which exceeds 3,500 kilograms but does not exceed 4,250 kilograms”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1694; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/253, 1991/2229, 2017/850 and 2020/818."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348278798/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:01.309847+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}