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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-competitions-and-trials-regulations-1969/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-competitions-and-trials-regulations-1969/schedule-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/414",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) Regulations 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-competitions-and-trials-regulations-1969",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "STANDARD CONDITIONS",
  "text": "1.\n2.\n3.\nStandard conditions\nApplication\nPower to modify\n1. Each event shall be held in accordance with the particulars of the event given in the application for authorisation of the event, except that an event may be held subject to such modifications of the particulars—\nAll events.\nNone.\n(a) as may have been agreed with or required by the Royal Automobile Club, and\n(b) as may be necessary to permit the event to take place in a case where part of the route of the event is closed or becomes impassable after the event is authorised.\n2. The total number of vehicles driven by competitors in any night event shall not exceed 120 and the total number of such vehicles in any other event shall not exceed 180.\nAll events.\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify in respect of specified events.\n3. The competitors shall be required by the rules of the event to observe a time-table such that:—\nAll time schedule events, except events in which all the\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify\nvehicles driven by\n(i) in respect of the intervals\n(i) the interval between the times of departure from the start of the event of the first and last competitors,\ncompetitors were registered under the 10 & 11 Geo. 5.c.72 Roads Act 1920 before the 1st January 1930.\nspecified in paragraph (iii) of this condition to the extent that the modification is necessary or expedient\n(ii) the interval between the time of arrival of the first competitor at and the time of departure of the last competitor from any control point on a public highway, other than a control point at which there is provided a rest halt,\neither in connection with a modification of standard condition No. 6 permitted in relation to an event or to permit the competitors to use private property on which part of the event is being held, and\n(iii) the interval between the times at which the first and last competitors may be expected to pass any point on the route on a public highway, other than a point on a motorway, and\n(ii) in respect of specified events.\n(iv) the interval between the times of arrival of the first and last competitors at the finish of the event,\nshall not exceed 2 hours in the case of a night event, or 3 hours in the case of any other event.\n4. No person at a starting point or finishing point of an event or control point, other than a control point at which there is provided a rest halt, shall check or record for the purpose of the event the times being kept by the competitors after 2½ hours in the case of any night event or 3½ hours in the case of any other event from the time when the first competitor departed from that point, in the case of a starting point, or arrived at that point, in the case of any other point.\nAll time schedule events, except events in which all the vehicles driven by competitors were registered under the Roads Act 1920 before the 1st January 1930.\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify in respect of specified events.\n5. No competitor shall be dispatched from a starting point of an event at an interval less than one minute from the dispatch of the previous competitor.\nAll time schedule events, time limit events and problem solving events.\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify in respect of specified events.\n6. The rules of an event shall not require or be such as are likely to cause any length of public highway (other than a motorway) to be traversed\nAll events.\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify:—\nmore than once by a vehicle driven by a competitor during the course of the event.\n(i) the extent that the modification is to permit the competitors to travel twice the same length of “A” road, or to reach a finishing point in the same place as a starting point, or to use a rest halt, private property on which part of the event is being held or a filling station, and\n(ii) in respect of specified events.\n7. No starting point or finishing point of an event shall be on a public highway.\nAll events.\nThe Royal Automobile Club has power to modify.\n8. The rules of an event shall not require, or be such as are likely to cause, a competitor to stop or to slow down for the purpose of setting or solving a problem, a vehicle he is driving in the event on a public highway within 500 yards of any occupied dwelling, unless an adult occupant of the dwelling has given his consent in writing.\nAll events\nNone.\n9. No point on a public highway at which the times being kept by competitors in an event are checked or recorded for the purposes of the event shall be situated less than two miles measured along the route of the event from any other point at which such times are so checked or recorded.\nAll time schedule events.\nNone.\n10. The rules of an event shall be such that no greater merit accrues to a competitor for visiting certain control points rather than others or for reaching one finishing point rather than another.\nAll events.\nNone.\n11. The rules of an event shall be such that once a competitor has been penalised for arriving at or departing from a control point along the route of the event after the time at or by which he was required by the rules to arrive at or depart from that point, the times at or by which he is required to arrive at or depart from subsequent control points along the route and to arrive at the finish of the event are adjusted so that he will not incur further penalties for failing to make up the time by which he was late and for which he has incurred a penalty.\nAll time schedule events.\nNone.\n12. A person who is acting as an official of an event shall not set up or place on the carriageway or footway of any public highway any equipment to be used in connection with the event, nor shall he park any vehicle he is using on the carriageway of any public highway forming part of the route of the event, except at a place provided for the parking of vehicles.\nAll events.\nNone.\n13. Where the route of an event contains roads across which there are gates or cattle grids:—\nAll events.\nNone.\n(a) the promoter of the event shall before the event takes place notify the occupiers of the land, other than any common land in England and Wales or land which is fenced off from the road, adjoining either side of the road between the gates, cattle grids, or a gate and a cattle grid of the holding of the event,\n(b) competitors shall not be required to leave their vehicles in order to open or close a gate, and\n(c) a person shall be posted at each gate until the last competitor has passed through the gateway for the purpose of ensuring that cattle do not pass through the gateway and closing the gate after the last competitor has passed through the gateway:\nProvided that where the interested occupiers consent in writing a person may be posted for the above purpose in respect of more than one gate, not being in England and Wales a gate across a road on any common land or a gate across a road leading to any common land where there is not another gate or a cattle grid across the road between the gate and the common land. In this proviso the expression “interested occupiers” in relation to a gate means the occupiers of the land adjoining such lengths of road on either side of the gate as extend to another gate or a cattle grid across the road, other than land which is fenced off from the road.\n14. The average speed, calculated by reference to the distance travelled by a vehicle being driven by a competitor on the public highway and the time during which it is being so driven, which the competitors in an event are required by the rules of the event or may reasonably be expected having regard to the rules of the event to maintain over a part or the whole of the route of the event on the public highway shall—\nAll events.\nNone.\n(a) be such as is not likely to cause competitors to exceed any speed limit imposed by or under any enactment in respect of any vehicle or on any public highway which forms part of the route of the event or drive at a speed which might be dangerous having regard to the nature of the route, and\n(b) without prejudice to the foregoing, not exceed—\n(i) in the case of vehicles of a class or description for which no speed limit is specified in Schedule 5 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, 50 miles per hour in so far as the route consists of a motorway, and 30 miles per hour in all other cases;\n(ii) in the case of goods vehicles and large passenger vehicles, 50 miles per hour in so far as the route consists of a motorway, and 25 miles per hour in all other cases;\n(iii) in the case of a vehicle constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects, being a motor car adapted to carry not more than seven passengers exclusive of the driver, which is towing a caravan, in so far as the route does not consist of a motorway, 25 miles per hour.\nIn this condition “goods vehicle” means a vehicle of the description of vehicles to which paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 5 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 applies, and “large passenger vehicle” means a vehicle of the description of vehicles to which paragraph 1(1) and (2) of that Schedule applies .\n15. The rules of an event shall be such as to require each competitor to take a rest period at intervals not exceeding each 200 miles which he drives whether continuously or not. The rest period shall not be less than one hour and may be taken as a passenger in a vehicle taking part in the event.\nAll events.\nNone.\n16. The promoter of an event shall require each competitor driving in the event as a condition of entry to declare that there will be in force in relation to the user of the vehicle which he intends to drive during the event such a policy of insurance or such a security in respect of third party risks as complies with the requirements of Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1960.\nAll events.\nNone.\n17. The promoter of an event shall record the name and address of each competitor driving a vehicle in the event and the registered number and make of each such vehicle, and he shall send this information to the Royal Automobile Club if so requested.\nAll events.\nNone.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/2233",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1005",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicle (Competitions and Trials) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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