{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-53A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-53A.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/53A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53A",
  "heading": "Strength of superstructure",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to every coach which is—\n(a) a single decked vehicle;\n(b) equipped with a compartment below the deck for the luggage of passengers; and\n(c) first used on or after 1st April 1993.\n(2) Every vehicle to which this regulation applies shall comply with the requirements of ECE Regulation 66.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 53A, 53B inserted (31.7.1987) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1133), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53A(1)(c) substituted (11.1.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2360), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/53A",
    "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."
}