Vehicle Regulations Amended
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RECENTLY issued by the Ministry Xof Transport, the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1949, amend past legislation in some respects. The principal changes are:—
(a) The drawing of trailers by vehicles being used under general and limited trade licences is now permitted (Regulations 29 and 30).
(b) The wartime provision whereby a vehicle which is laid up may be moved from one place of storage to another under a general or 'a limited trade licence is made permanent (Regulations 29 and 30). '
(c) The purpose for which vehicles may be used under limited trade licences are extended to cover the carriage of vehicles that have broken down on the road and the towing of trolley vehicles, and it is provided that vehicles while being used under such licences for authorized purposes may also be used for:— (i) The carriage of certain persOns in addition to the driver on Sundays and public holidays as well as on other days as at present; (ii) The carriage of persons carrying out statutory duties in connection with an inspection of the vehicle in addition to other authorized persons; and (iii) The carriale of goods and the drawing of a trailer carrying goods if both the vehicle and the trailer (if any) are new vehicles in course of delivery and no charge is made. The revoked Regulations permitted such user only during the war and did not cover the carriage of goods in a trailer (Regulation 30).
(d) The requirement that identification marks of vehicles shall be indelibly inscribed in white letters and figures on a black surface, such letters and figures being either incapable of being detached from the surface or welded or firmly riveted thereto, is modified, and such marks are now required to be indelibly inscribed on a black surface or so attached thereto that they cannot readily be detached from it (Fourth Schedule).
(e) Provision is no longer made for the licensing of carriages which are not mechanically propelled since 'excise duty is no longer payable in respect of such vehicles.
(f) The following war-time relaxations of the Regulations are now discontinued:— (I) The exemption from the requirement to carry identification marks on the backs of certain trailers drawn by public service vehicles which were used for the production of gas; (ii) The provision that members of H.M. Forces might be gival lifts in vehicles used under limited trade licences.
Copies of the Regulations can be obtained from His Maiesty's Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, price ls.