# The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990, Regulation 3: Amendments to regulation 7 (length of vehicle and combination of vehicles)


(1) Regulation 7 shall be amended as follows.
(2) After sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3) there shall be added—
“or
(c) an articulated vehicle, the semi-trailer of which is a low loader manufactured before 1st April 1991.”
(3) In paragraph (6), the words “or if there is more than one king-pin, the foremost one,” in sub-paragraph (a) and the words “or, if there is more than one king-pin, the rearmost one,” in sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.
(4) After paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(7A) Where a semi-trailer has more than one king-pin or is constructed so that it can be used with a king-pin in different positions, references in this regulation to a distance from the king-pin shall be construed as the distance from the rearmost king-pin or, as the case may be, the rearmost king-pin position.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1163/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-3-regulations-1990/regulation-3
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