Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 264
Road Traffic
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
Made
10th February 2014
Laid before Parliament
18th February 2014
Coming into force
1st April 2014
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1) and (2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988( 1 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2014.
Amendment of Regulations
2. —(1) The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986( 2 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 80 (over-riding weight restrictions)—
(a) in paragraphs (1), (2), (2A) and (3), before each instance of the word “exceeded”, insert “equalled or”; and
(b) in paragraph (2B), before the word “exceed”, insert “equal or”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Robert Goodwill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
10th February 2014
1988 c.52 , section 41 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40) , section 48 and Schedule 4, paragraph 50, and section 83 and Schedule 8.
S.I. 1986/1078 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/329 and 1997/1096 .