{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-57.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/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Noise limits construction requirements relating to motor cycles",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 59, this regulation applies to every motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1983 which is—\n(a) a moped; or\n(b) a two-wheeled motor cycle, whether or not with sidecar attached, which is not a moped.\n(2) A vehicle to which this regulation applies shall be so constructed that it meets,—\n(a) if it is first used before 1st April 1991, the requirements of item 1 or 2 of the Table in Part I of Schedule 7A;\n(b) if it is first used on or after that date, the requirements of item 2 of that Table.\n(3) Instead of complying with paragraph (2), a vehicle first used before 1st April 1991 may comply at the time of its first use with Community Directive 78/1015, 87/56 or 89/235.\n(4) Instead of complying with paragraph (2), a vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1991 may comply at the time of its first use with Community Directive 87/56 or 89/235.\n(5) In this regulation “moped” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 5 of Schedule 9.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 57-57B substituted for reg. 57 (1.7.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/14), regs. 1(1), 3(5), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 57 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/57",
    "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."
}