COMMENTED by
Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (Note)

Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1997 No. 109

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made 26th February 1997

Coming into operation 7th April 1997

ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER

Part I

Preliminary

Article

1. - Citation and commencement

2. - Interpretation

3. - Speed limits

Part II

Miscellaneous Vehicles

4. - Track laying vehicles (including those for launching lifeboats)

5. - Naval, military, air force and aviation vehicles

6. & 7. - Grass cutting machines and hedge trimmers

8. - Pedestrian controlled road maintenance vehicles

9. - Vehicles used for experiments or trials

10. - Straddle carriers

11. - Agricultural motor vehicles, agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances

12. - Agricultural motor vehicle towing an off-set agricultural trailer or trailed appliance

13. - Provisions supplementary to Articles 11 and 12

14. - Agricultural motor vehicles, agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances with implements projecting rearwards or forwards

15. - Vehicles for moving excavated material

16. - Motor vehicles and trailers constructed for use outside the United Kingdom or which are new or improved types constructed for tests or trials, etc.

17. - Vehicles fitted with moveable platforms

Part III

Abnormal Indivisible Loads and Other Vehicles Carrying Wide Loads

18. - Categories of motor vehicle

19. - Vehicles for carrying or drawing abnormal indivisible loads

20. - Vehicles for carrying or drawing abnormal indivisible loads -- further restrictions and conditions

21. - Engineering plant

22. - Engineering plant -- further restrictions and conditions

23. - Other vehicles carrying loads exceeding 4.3 metres in width

24. - Speed limits for vehicles authorised by Articles 19 to 23

25. - Attendants

26. - Marking of projecting loads and fixed appliances or apparatus which project

27. - Approval of the Department as to the time, date and route of a journey by a vehicle or a vehicle and its load exceeding 4.3 metres in width

28. - Notice to police

29. - Notice and indemnity to the Department

30. - Restriction on the passage over bridges of vehicles carrying abnormal indivisible loads

31. - Breakdown on bridges of vehicles of excessive weight or carrying excessive loads

32. - Revocation

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1. - Service and aviation vehicles

Schedule 2. - Conditions relating to the width of agricultural vehicles

Schedule 3. - Projecting implements on agricultural vehicles

Schedule 4. - Form of identification sign

Schedule 5. - Form of notice and indemnity

Schedule 6. - Orders revoked

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 60 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995[1] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Part I

Preliminary

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 7th April 1997.

Interpretation

2.--(1) In this Order--"abnormal indivisible load" means a load--

(a) which cannot without undue expense or risk of damage be divided into two or more loads for the purposes of carriage on roads, and

(b) which--

(i) owing to its dimensions, cannot be carried by a heavy motor car or trailer or a combination of heavy motor car and trailer complying in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations, or

(ii) owing to its weight, cannot be carried by a heavy motor car or trailer or combination of a heavy motor car and trailer having a total laden weight of not more than 38,000 kilograms and complying in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations;

"agricultural motor vehicle", "agricultural trailer", "agricultural trailed appliance", "articulated vehicle", "engineering plant", "locomotive", "overall length", "overall width", ...

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