HC Deb 09 June 1937 vol 324 c1772W
Colonel Goodman

asked the Minister of Transport (1) whether land tractors driven on a road only as set out in the definition of a land tractor in the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1937, and which are hauling nothing other than land implements or agricultural tractors are, in the view of his advisers, motor vehicles used upon highways for the purpose of Regulation 5 (4) of the above regulations;

(2) whether it is his intention that land implements hauled by land tractors driven on a road only when proceeding to and from the site of such work, as is permitted to be done by land tractors under the definition clause of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1937, should be treated as tractors used upon highways for the purpose of Regulation 5 (4) of the above regulations?

Mr. Burgin

The effect of the regulation to which my hon. Friend refers is to exempt from certain provisions of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1937, motor vehicles and trailers which are not used upon highways. The exemption would not apply to land tractors or land implements which are used upon highways.