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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Width",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the overall width of a vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the maximum width specified in column 3 in that item.\nTABLE\n(regulation 7(1))\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nItem\nClass of vehicle\nMaximum width (metres)\n1.\nA locomotive, other than an agricultural motor vehicle.\n2·75\n2.\nA refrigerated vehicle.\n2.60\n3.\nAny other motor vehicle.\n2.55\n4.\nA trailer drawn by a motor vehicle having a maximum gross weight (determined as provided in Part I of Schedule 11 to these Regulations) exceeding 3,500 kg.\n2·55\n5.\nAn agricultural trailer.\n2.55\n6.\nAn agricultural trailed appliance.\n2.50\n7.\nAny other trailer drawn by a vehicle other than a motor cycle.\n2·30\n8\nA trailer drawn by a motor cycle.\n1.50\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of its breakdown.\n(3) A person shall not use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled agricultural motor vehicle drawing a wheeled trailer if, when the longitudinal axes of the vehicles are parallel but in different vertical planes, the overall width of the two vehicles, measured as if they were one vehicle, exceeds 2.55m.\n(4) In this regulation “refrigerated vehicle” means any vehicle which is specially designed for the carriage of goods at low temperature and of which the thickness of each of the side walls, inclusive of insulation, is at least 45mm.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "text amended",
      "affecting": "nisr/2010/179",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/191",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/191",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/454/regulation/7",
    "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."
}