{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-4-regulations-1990/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-4-regulations-1990/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1981",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-4-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendments to regulation 27 (condition and maintenance of tyres)",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 27 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (4) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added the following–\n“(d) With effect from 1st January 1992, paragraph 1(f) and (g) shall not apply to the vehicles specified in sub-paragraph (e) of this paragraph but such vehicles shall comply with the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (f) of this paragraph.\n(e) The vehicles mentioned in sub-paragraph (d) are–\n(i) passenger vehicles other than motor cycles constructed or adapted to carry no more than 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver;\n(ii) goods vehicles with a maximum gross weight which do not exceed 3500 kg; and\n(iii) light trailers not falling within sub-paragraph (ii);\nfirst used on or after 3rd January 1933.\n(f) The requirements referred to in sub-paragraph (d) are that the grooves of the tread pattern of every tyre fitted to the wheels of a vehicle mentioned in sub-paragraph (e) shall be of a depth of at least 1.6 mm throughout a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the breadth of tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre.”.\n(3) In paragraph (6)(b) for “paragraph (1)(g)(i)” there shall be substituted “this regulation”.\n(4) In paragraph 6 after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph–\n“(c) A reference in this regulation to first use shall, in relation to a trailer, be construed as a reference to the date which is 6 months after the date of manufacture of the trailer.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1981/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:00:17.249228+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."
}