The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986
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OLD<br />
REGULATION<br />
NO<br />
NEW<br />
REGULATION<br />
NO C&U TLV<br />
SUBJECT MATTER AND DESCRIPTIONOF<br />
SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES(changes mentionedin<br />
paragraphs 2–5above are not repeated in this Annex)<br />
26 108 — Mixing of tyres<br />
27 107 57 Condition <strong>and</strong> maintenanceof tyres<br />
28 — 9, 56 Tracks<br />
29 102 54 Maintenance of steeringgear<br />
30 22, 100 14, 53 View to the front<br />
31 25 16 Glass<br />
32 26 — Glass<br />
33 23, 24,<br />
24A<br />
34 27, 28,<br />
103<br />
15 Mirrors Referenceis made to Community Directive<br />
85/196as a permitted alternative (paragraph (5)).<strong>The</strong><br />
reference to 7 passengers in former regulation 24(1)is<br />
altered to 8 passengers.<br />
A new uniform definition of “mirror” replaces various<br />
descriptions <strong>and</strong> definitions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> treatmentof track-laying vehicles is assimilated to<br />
that of wheeled vehicles in TableI, item 1, class (d) <strong>and</strong><br />
item 6, class (b).<br />
17, 54 Windscreen wipers <strong>and</strong> washers<br />
35 18 11 Speedometers<strong>The</strong> requirements as to accuracy are<br />
omitted, as is the requirement, for vehiclesfirst used<br />
before 1 April 1984, to indicate speed in cither miles or<br />
kilometresper hour. Track-laying vehicles are effectilvely<br />
exempted from the requirementby virtue of the extension<br />
to them of the exemption for wheeled vehicles witha<br />
legal maxmium speed of not more than 25 mph (no<br />
tracklaying vehicle is permittedto be driven at more than<br />
20 mph).<br />
36 98 52 Maintenance of speedometers<br />
37 29 18 Audible warning instuments <strong>The</strong> previous exclusions<br />
have been simplified to a single exclusionof vehicles not<br />
driven at more than 20 mph. Two-tone horns are excepted<br />
fromthe requirement that any horn fitted to a vehicle shall<br />
be continuous <strong>and</strong>uniform <strong>and</strong> not strident.<br />
38 — — Motor cyclesidest<strong>and</strong>s<br />
<strong>The</strong> exemptions in revoked regulations 5 <strong>and</strong> 5AA, for<br />
vehiclescomplying with Community Directives, are<br />
withdrawn in respect of reversingalarms as the Directives<br />
do not cover reversing alarms.<br />
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