{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridge-tolls-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridge-tolls-order-1989/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1922",
  "legislation_title": "The Severn Bridge Tolls Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridge-tolls-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Severn Bridge Tolls Act 1965;\n“Class I” and“Class II” means respectively the classes of traffic so numbered in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980;\n“goods vehicle”,“motor vehicle”,“trailer”,“unladen weight” and“wheel” have the meanings respectively given in regulation 3(2) of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986;\n“motor cycle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle having less than four wheels and, in a case where a cabin is provided, the cabin is not constructed so as to enclose the driver and any passenger;\n“The Severn Bridge road” means the new road as defined in section 1(4) of the Act;\n“the specified carriageways” has the meaning given in section 1(3) of the Act;\n“toll” means a toll leviable under the Act.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order an articulated vehicle (that is to say a motor vehicle with a trailer attached thereto by partial superimposition in such a way as to cause a substantial part of the weight of the trailer to be borne by the motor vehicle) shall be treated as one motor vehicle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1922/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:59.476737+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."
}