{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1078",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Connecting sections and direction-holding of articulated buses",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to every articulated bus first used on or after 1st April 1982.\n(2) The connecting section of the two parts of every articulated bus to which this regulation applies shall be constructed so as to comply with the provisions relating to such a section specified in paragraph 5.9 in ECE Regulation 36 as regards vehicles within the scope of that Regulation.\n(3) Every articulated bus to which this regulation applies shall be constructed so that when the vehicle is moving in a straight line the longitudinal median planes of its two parts coincide and form a continuous plane without any deflection.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in force at 11.8.1986, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:46:09.046037+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."
}