{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-18.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/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Categories of motor vehicle",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) (i) “Category 1” 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 46,000 kilograms;\n(ii) “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(iii) “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; and\n(b) 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 Article 20(r).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 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/18",
    "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."
}