{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/258",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations",
  "text": "There Regulations apply to all wheeled motor vehicles and trailers which fall within category M2, M3, N2, N3, O3 or O4 of the vehicle categories defined in Annex II of Directive 70/156/EEC as substituted by Directive 92/53/EC except vehicle combinations which for the time being fulfil the requirements of Part II, III or IIIA of Schedule 9A to the 1989 Regulations (exemptions relating to combined transport operations).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 20.7.1999, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L42, 23.2.70, p. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L225, 10.8.92, p. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Schedule 9A was inserted by S.R. 1994 No. 353 and amended by S.R. 1997 No. 518, S.R. 1998 No. 116 and S.R. 1999 No. 259"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/258",
      "affecting_title": "Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/191",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/818",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/8",
      "affecting_title": "Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/25",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/258/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:19:17.747294+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."
}