{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-no-2-regulations-1983/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-no-2-regulations-1983/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-no-2-regulations-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 so that:—\n(i)the definition of “goods vehicle” is amended so as to exclude a play bus (Regulation 3);\n(ii)the provisions about the computation of time are amended so as to exclude, besides a bank holiday, any day which is a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday or Christmas Day (Regulation 5);\n(iii)the specification of the Tyre Requirements is amended to take account of amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/1017) by the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/932) (Regulation 7); and\n(iv)the definition of “test” for the purpose of Regulation 6 (Exemptions) is refined (Regulation 4) and a minor error is corrected (Regulation 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1434/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:57:13.104152+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."
}