{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/881",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Maximum authorised weights",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 4(1) (maximum authorised weights), for “paragraph (2)”, substitute “paragraphs (2) and (3)”.\n(2) After paragraph (2), add—\n“(3) The maximum authorised weight of a relevant alternatively fuelled vehicle is increased by a maximum of 1000kg where—\n(a) a type or individual approval has been granted to the vehicle under the Framework Directive which provides evidence that the weight of the alternative fuel power train exceeds the weight of a conventional power train by a specified amount, and\n(b) the weight of the alternative fuel power train is included in the maximum permitted gross or train weight specified on any plates required by regulation 66 or regulation 70 of the 1986 Regulations.\n(4) A “relevant alternatively fuelled vehicle” means an alternatively fuelled vehicle of a type described in items 1, 5, 6 or 9 of Table 1 in Schedule 1.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 66 was amended by S.I. 1998/3112 and S.I. 1996/3017."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 70 was amended by S.I. 1998/3112."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/881/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:22.019041+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."
}