{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-plating-and-testing-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to—\n(a) goods vehicles being—\n(i) heavy motor cars and motor cars constructed or adapted for the purpose of forming part of an articulated vehicle;\n(ii) other heavy motor cars;\n(iii) other motor cars, the design gross weight of which exceeds 3500 kilograms;\n(iv) semi-trailers;\n(v) converter dollies of any unladen weight manufactured on or after 1st January 1979; or\n(vi) trailers, not being converter dollies or semi-trailers, the unladen weight of which exceeds 1020 kilograms;\n(b) category N2, and category N3, vehicles which do not fall within paragraph (a);\n(c) category O3, and category O4, vehicles which do not fall within paragraph (a);\n(d) category T tractors which do not fall within paragraph (a).\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, vehicles falling within paragraph (1)(b), (c) or (d) are treated as if they were goods vehicles, and any reference to a “goods vehicle” (other than in this paragraph and paragraph (1)), is to be construed accordingly.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“category N2 vehicle” means a vehicle designed and constructed primarily for the carriage of goods and having a maximum weight exceeding 3.5 metric tons but not exceeding 12 metric tons;\n“category N3 vehicle” means a vehicle designed and constructed primarily for the carriage of goods and having a maximum weight exceeding 12 metric tons;\n“category O3 vehicle” means a trailer with a maximum weight exceeding 3.5 metric tons but not exceeding 10 metric tons;\n“category O4 vehicle” means a trailer with a maximum weight exceeding 10 metric tons;\n“category T tractor” means a vehicle in “category T” as defined in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 February 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations applies to any vehicles specified in paragraph (1) which fall within any of the classes of vehicle specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (20.5.2018) by The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/849), regs. 1, 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1478/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:19.714158+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."
}