The Road Vehicles (Marking of Special Weights) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made: 24th July 1987

Laid before Parliament: 6th August 1987

Coming into force: 1st January 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1972[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 199(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Marking of Special Weights) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

2

The Road Vehicles (Marking of Special Weights) Regulations 1983[^f00003] are hereby amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3

In regulation 2(2) there shall be added after the word “position”:

• “ and all letters and figures shown on the plate shall be not less than 4 millimetres in height.”.

4

In regulation 3(1) for “12 miles per hour” there shall be substituted:

• each of the following— 12 miles per hour; 20 miles per hour; 25 miles per hour; 30 miles per hour; 35 miles per hour; 40 miles per hour,

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 24th July 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Marking of Special Weights) Regulations 1983 (“the principal Regulations”) as follows:

• (a) the minimum height of letters and figures on a plate authorised by the principal Regulations is prescribed; and

• (b) six speeds replace the single speed specified in the principal Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 20.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1983/910.