{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/304",
  "legislation_title": "Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-testing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to goods vehicles being –\n(a) heavy motor cars and motor cars constructed or adapted for the purpose of forming part of an articulated vehicle;\n(b) other motor cars and heavy motor cars;\n(c) motor tractors and light locomotives;\n(d) semi-trailers;\n(e) converter dollies of any unladen weight manufactured on or after 1st January 1979; or\n(f) trailers, not being converter dollies or semi-trailers, the unladen weight of which exceeds 1,020 kilograms.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to goods vehicles of any of the classes of vehicle specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.8.2003, see reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2018/86",
      "affecting_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/304/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:18.714283+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."
}