{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-98.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/98",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Stopping of engine when stationary",
  "text": "(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), the driver of a vehicle shall, when the vehicle is stationary, stop the action of any machinery attached to or forming part of the vehicle so far as may be necessary for the prevention of noise or of exhaust emissions.\n(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply—\n(a) when the vehicle is stationary owing to the necessities of traffic;\n(b) so as to prevent the examination or working of the machinery where the examination is necessitated by any failure or derangement of the machinery or where the machinery is required to be worked for a purpose other than driving the vehicle; or\n(c) in respect of a vehicle propelled by gas produced in plant carried on the vehicle, to such plant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 98(1) inserted (2.2.1998) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 98 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/98",
    "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."
}