{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-59.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/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Exceptions to regulations 55 to 57B",
  "text": "Regulations 55, 55A, 56, 57, 57A and 57B do not apply to a motor vehicle which is—\n(a) proceeding to a place where, by previous arrangement—\n(i) noise emitted by it is about to be measured for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the vehicle complies with such of those provisions as apply to it; or\n(ii) the vehicle is about to be mechanically adjusted, modified or equipped for the purpose of securing that it so complies; or\n(b) returning from such a place immediately after the noise has been so measured.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 59 inserted (1.10.1996) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2329), regs. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59 substituted (1.7.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/14), regs. 1(1), 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59 substituted (1.6.1995) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1201), regs. 1, 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 59 heading substituted (1.6.1995) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1201), regs. 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 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/59",
    "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."
}