{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/40",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Power to prohibit driving of overloaded vehicles.",
  "text": "(1) Section 70 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the words “where a goods vehicle” there shall be inserted the words “ , or a motor vehicle adapted to carry more than eight passengers, ”;\n(b) for the words “a goods vehicle examiner” there shall be substituted the words “ a vehicle examiner ”;\n(c) at the end there shall be added the words “ or that by reason of excessive overall weight or excessive axle weight on any axle driving the vehicle would involve a danger of injury to any person ”.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) for “69(2)” there shall be substituted “ 69(6) ”;\n(b) after the words “that limit” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, so that it is no longer excessive ”.\n(4) In subsection (4), for the words “a goods vehicle examiner” there shall be substituted the words “ a vehicle examiner ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 wholly in force at 1.7.1992 see s. 84 and S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/40/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:08.642287+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."
}