Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1969
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1969 No. 344
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 196912thMarch 1969
1stMay 1969
ARRANGEMENT OF THE ORDER
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Article
Commencement and Citation … … … … … … … … … … 1
Revocation… … … … … … … … … … … … … … 2
Interpretation… … … … … … … … … … … … … 3
Speed Limits … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4
PART II
MISCELLANEOUS VEHICLES
Track laying vehicles … … … … … … … … … … … 5
Naval, military, air force and aviation vehicles … … … … 6
Vehicles used in connection with the saving of life at sea… … 7
Grass cutting machines and hedge trimmers … … … … … 8, 9 and 10
Rotary ploughs… … … … … … … … … … … … … 11
Vehicles used for experiments or trials … … … … … … 12
Straddle carriers … … … … … … … … … … … … 13
Land tractors used for reaping and threshing … … … … … 14
Mechanically propelled hay and straw balers … … … … … 15
Vehicles for moving excavated material… … … … … … … 16
Motor vehicles and trailers constructed for use outside the
United Kingdom and new or improved types of motor vehicles and
trailers constructed for tests or trials and motor vehicles and
trailers equipped with new or improved equipment or types
of equipment … … … … … … 17
Vehicles fitted with moveable platforms … … … … … … 18
PART III
ABNORMAL INDIVISIBLE LOADS, ENGINEERING PLANT
AND OTHER VEHICLES CARRYING WIDE LOADS
Interpretation… … … … … … … … … … … … … 19
Vehicles for carrying or drawing abnormal indivisible loads … 20
Engineering plant … … … … … … … … … … … … 21
Other vehicles carrying loads exceeding 14 feet in width … … 22
Speed limits for vehicles authorised by Article 20, 21 or 22 … 23
Attendants… … … … … … … … … … … … … … 24
Marking of projecting loads and fixed appliances or apparatus
which project… … … … … … … … … … … … … 25
Approval of the Minister as to the time, date and route of a
journey by a vehicle or a vehicle and its load exceeding 14 feet
in width … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 26
Notice to police … … … … … … … … … … … … 27
Notice to highway and bridge authorities … … … … … … 28
Restriction on the passage over bridges of vehicles carrying
abnormal indivisible loads … … … … … … … … … 29
SCHEDULES
Page
1. Service and Aviation Vehicles … … … … … … … … 972
2. Part I—Form of Notice to Police… … … … … … … … 973
Part II—Form of Notice to Highway and Bridge Authorities … 974
Part III—Form of Indemnity … … … … … … … … … 975
3. Orders revoked by Article 2… … … … … … … … … 976
The Minister of Transport, in exercise of his powers under section 64(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1960(a) as amended by section 51 of and Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1962(b) and under subsections (5) and (6) of the said section 64 and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Commencement and Citation
1. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st May 1969 and may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1969.
Revocation
2. The Orders specified in Schedule 3 to this Order are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—
"Construction and Use Regulations" means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1969(c);
"Track Laying Regulations" means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) Regulations 1955(d);
"bank holiday", in relation to any provision of this Order requiring notice to be given of the intended use of a vehicle on a road, means a day which is, or is to be observed as, a bank holiday, or a holiday under the Bank Holidays Act 1871(e) or the Holidays Extension Act 1875(f), either generally or in the locality in which that road is situated;
"controlled by a pedestrian" has the same meaning as in section 254(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1960;
"chief officer of police", and "police area", in relation to England and Wales, have respectively the same meanings as in the Police Act 1964(g), and, in relation to Scotland, have respectively the same meanings as in the Police Pensions Act 1921(h);
(a) 8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
(c) S.I. 1969/321 (1969 I, p. 829).
(d) S.I. 1955/990 (1955 II, p. 2287).
(e) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17.
(f) 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13.
(g) 1964 c. 48.
"the Minister" means the Minister of Transport;
"articulated vehicle", "land locomotive", "land tractor", "overall length", "overall width", "overhang", "registered", "straddle carrier", "track laying" and "wheeled" have the same meanings respectively as in the Construction and Use Regulations.
(2) Any reference in this Order to the Construction and Use Regulations shall be construed as a reference to those Regulations as for the time being amended by any regulations made under the Road Traffic Act 1960 after the coming into operation of this Order.
(3) Any reference in this Order to the Track Laying Regulations shall be construed as a reference to those Regulations as for the time being amended by any regulations made under the Road Traffic Act 1930(a) before the coming into operation of this Order or by any regulations made under the Road Traffic Act 1960 after the coming into operation of this Order.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act this Order were an Act of Parliament and the Orders revoked by Article 2 of this Order were Acts of Parliament thereby repealed.
(5) In so far as any consent, notice, indemnity or dispensation given or any other thing done under a provision of any of the Orders revoked by this Order could have been given or done under a corresponding provision of this Order it shall not be invalidated by the revocation effected by Article 2 of this Order but shall have effect as if given or done under that corresponding provision.
Speed limits
4. Nothing in this Order relating to the speed of vehicles shall be taken to authorise any speed which is in excess of any other speed limit imposed by or under any enactment.
PART II
MISCELLANEOUS VEHICLES
Track laying vehicles
5. The Minister authorises the use on roads of track laying motor vehicles and track laying trailers notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations or the Track Laying Regulations, subject to the following restrictions and conditions:—
(a) a vehicle shall be used only for the purpose of—
(i) demonstration, or
(ii) enabling it to proceed to the nearest suitable railway station for conveyance to a port for shipment or to proceed to a port for shipment from a place in the immediate vicinity of that port where suitable railway facilities are not available;
(b) before a vehicle is so used the consent of every highway authority or every person responsible for the maintenance and repair of any road on which it is proposed that the vehicle shall be used shall in each case be obtained in writing; and
(c) a vehicle shall not be used for the carriage of goods or burden for hire or reward.
(a) 20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 43.
(b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
Naval, military, air force and aviation vehicles
6. The Minister authorises the use on roads of the vehicles specified in Column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Regulations of the Construction and Use Regulations or the Track Laying Regulations respectively specified opposite thereto in Column 2 of the said Schedule, subject to the vehicles being the property of, or for the time being under the control of, the persons respectively specified opposite thereto in Column 3 of the said Schedule.
Vehicles used in connection with the saving of life at sea
7. The Minister authorises the use on roads of track laying motor vehicles and track laying trailers notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations or the Track Laying Regulations, subject to the vehicles being used only for drawing or in connection with the launching of lifeboats the property of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Grass cutting machines and hedge trimmers
8. The Minister authorises the use on roads of motor tractors constructed or adapted for use as grass cutters or hedge trimmers (not, in either case, being vehicles controlled by a pedestrian) notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply with Regulation 39 of the Construction and Use Regulations, subject to the condition that all other relevant requirements of those Regulations are complied with as respects the vehicle and also subject to the following conditions:—
(a) the overall width of a vehicle, except when it is actually engaged in grass cutting or hedge trimming operations, must not exceed 7 feet 6 inches; and
(b) except when a vehicle is actually engaged in such operations as aforesaid, all cutting or trimming blades which form part of the machinery fitted to the vehicle must be effectively guarded so that no danger is caused or is likely to be caused to any person.
9. The Minister authorises the use on roads of hedge trimmers being vehicles controlled by a pedestrian notwithstanding that such vehicles do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations, subject to the following conditions:—
(a) the requirements of Regulations 16, 22, 24, 76, 82, 84, 87, 88, 90, 95, 96, and 111 of the said Regulations, so far as applicable, must be complied with as respects a vehicle;
(b) the unladen weight of a vehicle must not exceed 8 hundredweight;
(c) the overall width of a vehicle, except when it is actually engaged in hedge trimming operations, must not exceed 7 feet 6 inches; and
(d) except when a vehicle is...
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