{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/use-of-invalid-carriages-on-highways-regulations-1988/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/use-of-invalid-carriages-on-highways-regulations-1988/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2268",
  "legislation_title": "The Use of Invalid Carriages on Highways Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/use-of-invalid-carriages-on-highways-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\nthe “1970 Act” means the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970;\nthe “1986 Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986;\na “Class 1 invalid carriage” means an invalid carriage which is not mechanically propelled;\na “Class 2 invalid carriage” means a mechanically propelled invalid carriage which is so constructed or adapted as to be incapable of exceeding a speed of 4 miles per hour on the level under its own power;\na “Class 3 invalid carriage” means a mechanically propelled invalid carriage which is so constructed or adapted as to be capable of exceeding a speed of 4 miles per hour but incapable of exceeding a speed of 8 miles per hour on the level under its own power;\n“horn” has the meaning given by regulation 37(10)(a) of the 1986 Regulations;\n“reversing alarm” has the meaning given by regulation 37(10)(c) of the 1986 Regulations;\n“road” has the meaning given by section 142(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;\n“two-tone horn” has the meaning given by regulation 37(10)(d) of the 1986 Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 30.1.1989, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 27. In Scotland the definition of “road” in section 142(1) was substituted by the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54), Schedule 9, paragraph 93(44)(d)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2268/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:51:58.766854+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."
}