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5th May 1972, Page 49
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should be fitted with rear elective markers but which do not have hem. I have particularly noticed that motor ar transporters seem to form the largest roup not carrying these markers. Are there fly special exemptions to the need for elective rear markers?

Car transporter vehicles are specifically exempt from the requirement to display ear reflective markers along with a number f other special categories of vehicle.

The regulations apply generally to every dor vehicle which has an unladen weight more than 3 tons and every trailer which as an unladen weight of more than one on.

A list of exceptions is given in The Motor ehicles (Rear Markings) Regulations 1970 s follows: (a) a passenger vehicle; Ib) a trailer, being a living van the unladen weight of which does not exceed 2 tons; (c) a land tractor, land locomotive, land implement, land implement conveyor, an agricultural trailer or an industrial tractor; (d) a works truck or works trailer: le) a vehicle in an unfinished condition proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; If) a motor vehicle constructed or adapted for the purpose of forming part of an articulated vehicle; (g) a broken-down vehicle while being drawn in consequence of the breakdown; (h) engineering plant: (i) a trailer drawn by a public service vehicle; (j) a vehicle designed for fire fighting or fire salvage purposes; (k) a vehicle designed and used for the purpose of servicing or controlling aircraft: (I) a vehicle designed and used for the transportation of two or more wheeled motor vehicles carried thereon; (m) a vehicle proceeding to a place for export: (n) a vehicle brought temporarily into Great Britain by a person resident abroad: (o) a vehicle in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters; (p) a motor vehicle first used before January 1 1940.

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