{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-goods-vehicles-testing-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-etc-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-goods-vehicles-testing-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-etc-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986",
  "text": "(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation), in paragraph (2), in the table, after the definition of “works truck” insert—\n“\nzero-emission vehicle\na vehicle without an internal combustion engine, or with an internal combustion engine that has emissions of CO 2 of zero grams per kilometre.\n”.\n(3) In regulation 27 (condition and maintenance of tyres)—\n(a) in paragraph (1A), in sub-paragraph (c), for paragraph (ii), substitute—\n“(ii) goods vehicles—\n(aa) which are not zero-emission vehicles, with a maximum gross weight exceeding 3,500 kg, or\n(bb) which are zero-emission vehicles, with a maximum gross weight exceeding 4,250 kg.”;\n(b) in paragraph (4), in sub-paragraph (e), for paragraph (ii), substitute—\n“(ii) goods vehicles—\n(aa) with a maximum gross weight which does not exceed 3,500 kg, or\n(bb) which are zero-emission vehicles with a maximum gross weight over 3,500 kg but not exceeding 4,250 kg; and”;\n(c) in paragraph (4), in sub-paragraph (e), in paragraph (iii), for “sub-paragraph (ii)” substitute “sub-paragraph (ii)(aa)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078, amended by S.I. 1990/1981, 1991/2710, 2015/152 and 2020/1178; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348278798/regulation/3",
    "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."
}