Regulation 3 Amendments to regulation 7 (length of vehicle and combination of vehicles)

Regulation 7 shall be amended as follows.

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.”

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.

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.”