{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-137A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-137A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/154",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/137A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "137A",
  "heading": "Meaning of motor car",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding Article 3 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, in this Part “motor car” means a motor vehicle (other than an invalid carriage or motor cycle)—\n(a) which is not constructed or adapted to carry more than nine persons inclusive of the driver, and\n(b) which has a maximum gross weight not exceeding 3.5 tonnes.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “maximum gross weight” has the same meaning as in Part II.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 1997/241"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 137A repealed (2.8.2010 for certain purposes, otherwise prosp.) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 86(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I; S.R. 2010/226, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/137A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+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."
}