Regulation 35 SpeedometersI1
England, Wales and Scotland
Save as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), every motor vehicle shall be fitted with a speedometer which, if the vehicle is first used on or after 1st April 1984, shall be capable of indicating speed in both miles per hour and kilometres per hour, either simultaneously or, by the operation of a switch, separately.
Paragraph (1) does not apply to—
a vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;
a vehicle which it is at all times unlawful to drive at more than 25 mph;
an agricultural motor vehicle F1, not being a category T tractor, which is not driven at more than 20 mph;
a category T tractor which is not driven at more than 40 km/h;
a motor cycle first used before 1st April 1984 the engine of which has a cylinder capacity not exceeding 100 cc;
an invalid carriage first used before 1st April 1984;
a works truck first used before 1st April 1984;
a vehicle first used before 1st October 1937; or
a vehicle equipped with recording equipment marked with a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of the Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 3 in Schedule 4 to those Regulations (whether or not the vehicle is required to be equipped with that equipment) and which, as regards the visual indications given by that equipment of the speed of the vehicle, complies with the requirements relating to the said indications and installations specified in the F3EU Tachographs Regulation.
Instead of complying with paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with F4Community Directive 97/39 or with ECE Regulation 39.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 35(2)(c) inserted (9.3.2015) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/142), regs. 1(2), 15(1)
- F2
Reg. 35(2)(ca) inserted (9.3.2015) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/142), regs. 1(2), 15(2)
- F3
Words in reg. 35(2)(h) substituted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 15(3)
- F4
Words in reg. 35(3) substituted (1.6.1998) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1188), regs. 1, 11