Expert Re-cuts on Large Commercials Excluded from Tyres Ban
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TiE Minister of Transport has cireul ated to interested organizations proposals to prohibit the fitting and use of re-cut tyres on certain smaller motor vehicles and trailers.
Although many heavy-duty tyres, such as those fitted to public service vehicles and heavy goods vehicles, are designed to be re-cut after wear, there is an increasing sale and use of re-cut tyres not suitable for such treatment These tyres, normally fitted to lighter classes of vehicles—cars or vans—are re-cut to disguise the extent to which they are worn. The use of such tyres is dangerous, especially for driving at speed,
The Minister proposes to amend the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use)
Regulations to prohibit the use of re-cut tyres on specified smaller classes of motor vehicles and trailers. The use of re-cut tyres on public service and similar large vehicles, when they are normally re-cut by experts, would not be affected. But whether or not the use of re-cut tyres is specifically forbidden, their use would be prohibited if the fabric of the tyre had been cut or exposed by the re-cutting process.
It would automatically become an offence to sell vehicles specified in the Regulations if fitted with re-cut tyres, as Section 68(1) of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, forbids the sale of vehicles which do not comply with regulations made under the Act.