{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/2994",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Certain vehicles not to be treated as motor vehicles",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the Road Traffic Orders or the Offenders Order\n(a) a mechanically propelled vehicle being an implement for cutting grass which is controlled by a pedestrian and is not capable of being used or adapted for any other purpose;\n(b) any other mechanically propelled vehicle controlled by a pedestrian which may be prescribed for the purposes of this Article; and\n(c) an electrically assisted pedal cycle of such a class as may be so prescribed,\nis to be treated as not being a motor vehicle.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “controlled by a pedestrian” means that the vehicle either—\n(a) is constructed or adapted for use only under such control; or\n(b) is constructed or adapted for use either under such control or under the control of a person carried on it, but is not for the time being in use under, or proceeding under, the control of a person carried on it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1996 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 6 applied (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), ss. 27(3), 61(2); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/2994/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:55.991221+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."
}