{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/142",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Maintenance and efficiency of brakes",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 18(2)(a), after “an agricultural motor vehicle”, insert “, not being a category T tractor,”.\n(2) In regulation 18(2), after sub-paragraph (a), insert—\n“(aa) a category T tractor which is not driven at more than 40 km/h;”.\n(3) For paragraph (5) of regulation 18, substitute—\n“(5) The brakes of—\n(a) an agricultural motor vehicle, not being a category T tractor, which is first used on or after 1st June 1986 and is not driven at more than 20 mph;\n(b) a category T tractor which is first used on or after 1st June 1986 and is not driven at more than 40 km/h; and\n(c) an agricultural trailer manufactured on or after 1st December 1985,\nshall be capable of achieving a braking efficiency of not less than 25% when the weight of the vehicle is equal to the total maximum axle weights which the vehicle is designed to have.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/142/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:53.565684+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."
}