{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-14.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/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Agricultural motor vehicles, agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances with implements projecting rearwards or forwards",
  "text": "(1) The Department authorises the use on roads, notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply with the requirements of regulations 7 and 79 of the Construction and Use Regulations of—\n(a) an agricultural motor vehicle;\n(b) an agricultural trailer; and\n(c) an agricultural trailed appliance,\nwith an agricultural implement rigidly mounted thereon whether or not—\n(i) the implement is permanently attached thereto, and\n(ii) part of the weight of the implement is transmitted to the surface of the road otherwise than by the wheels or tracks of the motor vehicle, trailer or appliance,\nprovided that the requirements mentioned in paragraph (2) are complied with.\n(2) The requirements referred to in paragraph (1) are that—\n(a) if any part of the implement projects rearwards of the rearmost part of the motor vehicle, trailer or appliance by more than a distance specified in an item in column 2 of Schedule 3 the conditions specified in that item in column 3 are complied with; and\n(b) if any part of the implement projects forwards of the foremost part of the motor vehicle, trailer or appliance by more than a distance specified in an item in column 2 of Schedule 3 the conditions specified in that item in column 3 are complied with.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 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/14",
    "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."
}