{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-104.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/454",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/104",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Passengers in trailers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road any trailer for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a wheeled trailer which is, or is carrying, a broken-down motor vehicle if—\n(a) the trailer is drawn at a speed not exceeding 30 mph; and\n(b) where the trailer is, or is carrying, a broken-down bus, it is attached to the drawing vehicle by a rigid draw bar.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person shall not use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled trailer in which a person is carried and which is a living van having either—\n(a) less than 4 wheels; or\n(b) 4 wheels consisting of two close-coupled wheels on each side.\n(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply in respect of a trailer which is being tested by—\n(a) its manufacturer;\n(b) a person by whom it has been, or is being, repaired; or\n(c) a distributor of, or dealer in, trailers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/454/regulation/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:32.000361+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."
}