{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-83.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/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Number of trailers",
  "text": "(1) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.\nTABLE\n(regulation 83(1))\n1\n2\n3\nItem\nClass of vehicles\nExceptions\n1\nA straddle carrier\n—\n2\nAn invalid carriage\n—\n3\nAn articulated bus\n—\n4\nA bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus\n(a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or\n(b) 1 trailer\n5\nA locomotive\n3 trailers\n6\nA motor tractor\n1 trailer,\n2 trailers if neither is laden\n7\nA heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4\n2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement\n1 trailer in any other case\n8\nAn agricultural motor vehicle\n(a)in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or\n(b)in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances—\n(i)2 unladen agricultural trailers, or\n(ii)1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural trailed appliance, or\n(iii)2 agricultural trailed appliances\n(2) For the purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—\n(a) an unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and\n(b) a towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural trailed appliance.\n(3) No track-laying motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.\n(4) For the purpose of this regulation, the word “trailer” does not include a vehicle which is drawn by a steam powered vehicle and which is used solely for carrying water for the purpose of the drawing vehicle.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 83 Table substituted (11.1.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2360), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 83 Table substituted (11.1.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2360), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 83(4) added (6.5.1987) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/676), regs. 1(2), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 83 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/83",
    "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."
}