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Regulation 71 Marking of weights on certain vehiclesI1

England, Wales and Scotland

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

This regulation applies to a vehicle (other than an agricultural motor vehicle which is either a track-laying vehicle not exceeding 3050 kg in unladen weight or a wheeled vehicle) which is—

(a)

a locomotive;

(b)

a motor tractor;

(c)

F1a bus which is registered under the 1971 Act (or any enactment repealed thereby) F2...; or

(d)

an unbraked wheeled trailer, other than one mentioned in F3regulation 16(3)(b), (bb), (bc), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g).

(2)

There shall be plainly marked in a conspicuous place on the outside of a vehicle to which this regulation applies, on its near side—

(a)

if it is a vehicle falling in paragraph (1)(a), (b), or (c), its unladen weight; and

(b)

if it is a vehicle falling in paragraph (1)(d), its maximum gross weight.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 71(1)(c) substituted (24.3.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/329), regs. 1, 6

F2

Words in reg. 71(1)(c) omitted (24.3.1994) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/329), regs. 1, 6

F3

Words in reg. 71(1)(d) substituted (1.1.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3033), regs. 1, 6

Commencement

I1

Reg. 71 in force at 11.8.1986, see reg. 1