{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trailer-registration-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1203",
  "legislation_title": "The Trailer Registration Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trailer-registration-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“registered” means registered by the Secretary of State under these Regulations;\n“the Convention” means the Convention on Road Traffic of 8th November 1968;\n“the permissible maximum mass” means the weight which the trailer is designed or adapted not to exceed when in normal use, travelling on a road and laden;\n“the register” means the register of trailers established and maintained by the Secretary of State; and\n“the registered keeper” means the person recorded in the register as the person who keeps the trailer.\n(2) With the exception of regulation 16(3), references to the use of a trailer on a road are to the use of a trailer on a road while it is being drawn by a motor vehicle.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 21.11.2018, see Sch. 1 para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Command paper 9570; Miscellaneous Series No. 1 (2018). Further information is provided in the Explanatory Note."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Trailer” is defined in section 13(3) of the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Road” is defined in section 22(2) of the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1203/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:02.330583+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."
}