Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. Regulation 3 makes minor drafting amendments and regulation 4 amends Schedule 11A so as to extend the exemptions in regulations 76(1A), 77(2A) and 80(2B) from the weight limits for goods vehicles in favour of combined road and rail transport operations to an articulated vehicle carrying a “road-rail semi-trailer”. This is defined as a semi-trailer constructed or adapted so as to be capable of being both used as a semi-trailer on roads and carried on a railway vehicle. The requirements for the exemption of articulated vehicles in Part II of Schedule 11A, as those requirements apply in relation to such vehicles when carrying “bi-modal vehicles” and “relevant receptacles”, are applied with modifications to articulated vehicles when carrying road-rail semi-trailers.