Regulation 4 Maximum authorised weights

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 4(1) words substituted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(a)
reg. 4(1)(c) words inserted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2000 reg. 4(a)
reg. 4(2) words added by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2000 reg. 4(b)
reg. 4(1) words substituted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) 2017 reg. 5(1)
reg. 4(3)(4) added by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) 2017 reg. 5(2)
reg. 4(3) words inserted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(b)(i)
reg. 4(3)(b) words omitted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(b)(ii)
reg. 4(4) word inserted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(c)(i)
reg. 4(4) words inserted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(c)(ii)
reg. 4(5)-(10) inserted by Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) 2023 reg. 4(d)
reg. 4(3)(a) words substituted by Road Vehicles (Approval) 2020 Sch. 6 para. 11(4)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 5, no vehicle to which these Regulations apply and which is of a description specified in a Schedule to these Regulations shall be used on a road if–

(a)

the weight of the vehicle exceeds the maximum authorised weight for the vehicle determined in accordance with Schedule 1;

(b)

where the vehicle is used as part of a vehicle combination, the weight of the combination exceeds the maximum authorised weight for the combination determined in accordance with Schedule 2; or

(c)

the axle weight of any axle of the vehicle exceeds the maximum authorised axle weight for that axle determined in accordance with Schedule 3.

(2)

A vehicle to which any of the provisions of regulations 75 to 79 of the 1986 Regulations apply, so long as it is so used that those provisions are complied with, shall be taken to comply with these Regulations.