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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995/schedule-3/paragraph-39",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2869",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 3",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“EUR 2005/1” means Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97;\n“international carriage” means, except in paragraph 67, in relation to goods, the carriage of those goods by road—\n(a)from the United Kingdom to any other country, or vice versa, or\n(b)through the United Kingdom from, and to, any other country;\n“kerbside weight” means the mass of a goods vehicle when it carries nothing other than—\n(a)a full supply of fuel in its fuel tank,\n(b)an adequate supply of other liquids incidental to its propulsion, and\n(c)any loose tools and equipment with which it is normally equipped;\n“livestock” includes the following domesticated animals—\n(a)bovids, which includes buffalo, cattle, ... goats, sheep and yaks;\n(b)camelids, which includes alpacas and llamas;\n(c)cervids, which includes deer and elk;\n(d)equids, which includes asses, hinnies, horses and mules;\n(e)fowl, which includes chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants and turkeys;\n(f)pigs;\n“livestock vehicle” means a goods vehicle—\n(a)being used for the transport of livestock, and\n(b)in respect of which a certificate of approval of means of transport by road has been granted under Article 18 of EUR 2005/1;\n“maximum payload weight” means, in relation to a goods vehicle, the difference in mass between the kerbside weight of the vehicle and the maximum laden weight of the vehicle;\n“medical supplies” includes—\n(a)medical appliances, equipment and products;\n(b)medicines and medicaments;\n“medium-weight vehicle” means a motor vehicle or a vehicle combination with either or both—\n(a)a maximum laden weight not exceeding 6 tonnes;\n(b)a maximum payload weight not exceeding 3.5 tonnes;\n“moving vehicle” means a goods vehicle—\n(a)on a journey for the relocation of furniture or other moveable effects, and\n(b)being used by a person who uses specialised equipment and personnel for carrying out relocations;\n“non-commercial basis” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (2);\n“own account” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (3);\n“passenger vehicle” means a motor vehicle designed for the transport of eight or more persons, not including the driver, with or without a trailer for carrying baggage;\n“postal packet” means a letter, parcel, packet or other article transmissible by post;\n“vehicle used for recovery” means a goods vehicle on a journey to remove, repair, replace, return or support a goods vehicle of another class specified in this Part that has broken-down;\n“the UK-Switzerland Agreement” means the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Swiss Federal Council on the International Carriage of Passengers and Goods by Road done at Davos on 25th January 2019;\n“the UK-USSR Agreement” means the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics concerning International Road Transport with Administrative Memorandum done at London on 22nd January 1988.\n(2) The operator of a goods vehicle uses it for the carriage of goods on a “non-commercial basis” if—\n(a) the purpose of the carriage is not to directly or indirectly generate any profit, or\n(b) the goods will be—\n(i) exhausted in the destination country, or\n(ii) used temporarily before being returned to the country of origin without alteration.\n(3) The person using the vehicle (“the user”) uses it for the carriage of goods on “own account” if—\n(a) the user—\n(i) owns the goods, or\n(ii) has bought, extracted, hired, let out on hire, processed, produced, repaired or sold the goods,\n(b) the vehicle is—\n(i) hired, leased or owned by the user, and\n(ii) driven by the user or a person under a contract of service with the user,\n(c) the goods are carried—\n(i) from or to the user’s premises, or\n(ii) between other places for the user’s own requirements, and\n(d) the carriage of the goods is no more than ancillary to the overall activities of the user.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 3 inserted (1.10.2023) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Exemptions and Modifications) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/805), regs. 1, 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 39(1) omitted (19.8.2024) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators and International Road Transport Permits) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/830), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:53.159459+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."
}