{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-general-amendment-order-2023/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-general-amendment-order-2023/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/524",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) (General) (Amendment) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorisation-of-special-types-general-amendment-order-2023",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments of Article 3 and Part 5 relating to longer semi-trailers",
  "text": "In article 3(1) (“interpretation: general”)—\n(a) after the definition of “local excavation vehicle”, insert—\n““longer semi-trailer” means a semi-trailer, (other than an abnormal indivisible load vehicle, a low loader or a stepframe low loader), in respect of which the longitudinal distance from the axis of the king pin to the rear of the trailer exceeds—\n(a) 12.5 metres, in the case of a car transporter, or\n(b) 12 metres, in any other case\n(but a semi-trailer which is capable of extension is only a longer semi-trailer when extended so that it exceeds the above distances);\n“low loader” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(2) of the Construction and Use Regulations;”;.\n(b) after the definition of “motorway”, insert—\n““operator” means—\n(a) a person who holds an operator’s licence in respect of a longer semi-trailer under section 2 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995;\n(b) if there is no such person, the driver of the motor vehicle towing the longer semi-trailer where the towing vehicle belongs to the driver or is in the driver’s possession under an agreement for hire or hire-purchase, or a loan;\n(c) in any other case, the person whose employee or agent the driver of the towing vehicle is;”.\n(c) after the definition of “road recovery vehicle”, insert—\n““semi-trailer” has the same meaning as in regulation 3 of the Construction and Use Regulations”\n(d) after the definition of “special type agricultural vehicle”, insert—\n““stepframe low loader” has the same meaning as in regulation 3 of the Construction and Use Regulations;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078. Definition inserted by S.I. 1990/317, regulation 3(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 23. Section 2 was amended by the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), section 261(1), the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018 (c. 19), section 11(2), S.I. 2011/2632, paragraph 2 of Schedule 2, S.I. 2019/708, regulation 2(2), and by S.I. 2022/293, regulation 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Definition inserted into regulation 3 by S.I. 1987/676, regulation 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Definition inserted into regulation 3 by S.I. 1990/317, regulation 3(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/524/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:45:26.320822+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."
}