{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/109",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Agricultural motor vehicles, agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), and notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply with the requirements of regulation 7 of the Construction and Use Regulations, the Department authorises the use on roads of—\n(a) an agricultural motor vehicle;\n(b) an agricultural trailer designed to perform functions, other than the carriage of goods, that necessitate an overall width of 2.55 metres being exceeded; or\n(c) an agricultural trailed appliance,\nif the relevant conditions specified in Schedule 2 are complied with.\n(2) The authorisation specified in paragraph (1) applies only in so far as the width of a vehicle (including an agricultural implement which by virtue of Article 13 is treated as part of the vehicle) cannot, without undue expense or risk of damage, be reduced.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 11 in operation at 7.4.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/109",
      "affecting_title": "Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/109/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:12.016317+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."
}