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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-n17/paragraph-9",
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  "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": "schedule/n17/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“bi–modal vehicle” means a semi–trailer which can be adapted for use as a railway vehicle or for waterborne transport;\n“journey”, except in sub–paragraph (3), means a journey by road;\n“loading unit” means a bi–modal vehicle , road-rail semi-trailer or a relevant receptacle;\n“railhead” means a facility for the transhipment of—\n(a)bi–modal vehicles from the ground onto the track of a railway, or\n(b)relevant receptacles from road vehicles onto railway vehicles situated on the track of a railway, or,\n(c)road-rail semi-trailers from the ground onto railway vehicles on the track of a railway,\nor vice versa;\n“relevant contract” means a contract for the transport of a loading unit by railway or waterborne transport;\n“relevant receptacle” means a receptacle (not being a vehicle) having a length of at least 6.1m designed and constructed for repeated use for the carriage of goods on, and for transfer between, road vehicles and railway vehicles;\n“road-rail semi-trailer” means a semi-trailer constructed or adapted so as to be capable of being both used as a semi-trailer on roads and carried on a railway vehicle;\n“water transport terminal” means a facility for the transhipment of any of the following—\n(a)a vehicle from the ground or from a railway vehicle onto a waterborne vessel;\n(b)a vehicle from a waterborne vessel onto the ground or onto a railway vehicle;\n(c)a relevant receptacle from the ground or from a road or rail vehicle onto a waterborne vessel;\n(d)a relevant receptacle from a waterborne vessel onto the ground or onto a road or rail vehicle;\n(e)a road-rail semi-trailer from the ground onto a waterborne vessel;\n(f)a road-rail semi-trailer from a waterborne vessel onto the ground;\n“road friendly suspension” and “twin tyres” have the meanings given by regulation 75; and\n“network”, “network licence”, “railway vehicle”, “track” and “train” have the meanings given by section 83 of the Railways Act 1993.\n(2) The definition of “railway” in section 67(1) of the Transport and Works Act 1992 shall have effect for the purposes of this Schedule as it has effect for the purposes of that Act, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) In these Regulations, a reference to an intermodal transport operation is a reference to the transport of one or more containers or swap bodies where all of the following conditions are met—\n(a) the total maximum length of the containers or swap bodies is no more than 45 feet;\n(b) the initial or final leg of the journey uses the road;\n(c) another leg of the journey uses rail or waterborne transport;\n(d) no goods are added to or removed from the loading unit between the time when the journey begins and when it ends; and\n(e) the length of the initial or the final road leg does not exceed 150 km in Great Britain, except where necessary to reach the nearest transport terminal.\n(4) Subject to sub–paragraph (5), for the purposes of this Schedule—\n(a) a bi–modal vehicle shall be regarded as being transported by railway in a relevant manner if and only if the vehicle in its railway vehicle mode is travelling by railway as part of a train; ...\n(b) a relevant receptacle shall be regarded as being transported by railway in a relevant manner if and only if it is being carried on a railway vehicle which forms part of a train, and\n(c) a road-rail semi-trailer shall be regarded as being transported by railway in a relevant manner if and only if it is being carried on a railway vehicle which forms part of a train.\n(5) A relevant receptacle shall be regarded, for the purposes of this Schedule, as not being transported by railway in a relevant manner at any time when—\n(a) the relvant receptacle is in or on a motor vehicle or trailer; and\n(b) the motor vehicle or trailer is being carried on a railway vehicle.\n(6) A road-rail semi-trailer shall be regarded, for the purposes of this Schedule, as not being transported by railway in a relevant manner at any time when it is being carried on a railway vehicle as part of an articulated vehicle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11A inserted (24.3.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/329), regs. 1, 12, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/881), regs. 1, 17(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (22.4.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (22.4.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/881), regs. 1, 17(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (22.4.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11A para. 9(1) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/881), regs. 1, 17(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 11A para. 9(3) substituted (1.10.2017) by The Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/881), regs. 1, 17(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 11A para. 9(4) omitted (22.4.1997) by virtue of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Sch. 11A para. 9(4)(c) and word inserted (22.4.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 11A para. 9(6) inserted (22.4.1997) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1096), regs. 1, 4(6)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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