{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-amendment-order-1987/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-amendment-order-1987/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1327",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In article 18, after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted:\n“(1A) (a) In this article, “the Construction and Use Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.\n(b) For the purposes of paragraph (2) below:\n(i) “Category 1” shall consist of any vehicle or combination of vehicles where the total weight of the vehicle or vehicles carrying the load is not more than 46,000 kilograms;\n“Category 2” shall consist of any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles where the total weight of the vehicle or vehicles carrying the load is not more than 80,000 kilograms;\n“Category 3” shall consist of any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles where the total weight of the vehicle or vehicles carrying the load is not more than 150,000 kilograms;\n(ii) a vehicle shall comply with the conditions of an appropriate category, and the category under the conditions of which a vehicle is being used shall be that indicated on the sign mentioned in paragraph (2)(t) below.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1327/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:55.744509+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."
}