{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-propelled-industrial-trucks-eec-requirements-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-propelled-industrial-trucks-eec-requirements-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1736",
  "legislation_title": "The Self-Propelled Industrial Trucks (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-propelled-industrial-trucks-eec-requirements-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:\n“approved body” means a body appointed by the Secretary of State under regulation 4;\n“certificate of conformity” means a certificate that the truck specified in the certificate conforms in all respects to the requirements of the Special Directive;\n“conformity mark” means the mark of conformity referred to in regulation 7;\n“EEC technical requirements” means the technical requirements referred to in Annex I of the Special Directive;\n“EEC tests” means the tests and inspections for trucks in Annex I of the Special Directive;\n“the Framework Directive” means the Directive adopted by the Council of the Communities concerning the approximation of the laws of the member States relating to common provisions for certain lifting and mechanical handling appliances;\n“manufacturer” means the manufacturer or his authorised representative established in the Community;\n“market” means supply by way of sale, lease, hire or hire-purchase, whether as principal or agent for another;\n“the Special Directive” means the Directive adopted by the Council of the Communities concerning the approximation of the laws of the member States relating to certain self-propelled industrial trucks;\n“truck” means a self-propelled industrial truck, that is, any wheeled vehicle, other than those running on rails, the capacity of which does not exceed 10,000 kilograms, or which in the case of tractors has a draw-bar pull of less than 20,000 newtons, that is designed to carry, tow, push, lift, stack or tier in racks any kind of load and is controlled by an operator who either walks with the vehicle or rides on a specially arranged driving platform which is either fixed to the chassis of the vehicle or can be raised, but excluding those vehicles specified in Schedule 1;\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "84/528/EEC, OJ. No. L300, 19.11.84, p. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "86/663/EEC, OJ. No. L384, 31.12.86, p. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1035",
      "affecting_title": "The Self-Propelled Industrial Trucks (EEC Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1736/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:57.462608+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."
}