"excursion or tour" has the meaning given in section 137(1) of the Transport Act 1985(a)[1];
"goods vehicle" means a motor vehicle or trailer constructed or adapted for use for the carriage or haulage of goods or burden of any description;
"hours of darkness" means the time between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise;
"junction" means a road junction;
"level crossing" means a place where a road is crossed by a railway or a tramway on a reserved track on the same level;
"local bus" means a public service vehicle used for the provision of a local service not being an excursion or tour;
"local service" has the meaning given in section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;
"major road" means the road at a junction into which there emerges vehicular traffic from a minor road;
"manually operated" means a change from one sign to another or one signal aspect to another set in process by an operator;
"maximum gross weight" means—
(a) in the case of a motor vehicle not drawing a trailer or in the case of a trailer, its maximum laden weight;
(b) in the case of an articulated vehicle, its maximum laden weight (if it has one) and otherwise the aggregate maximum laden weight of all the individual vehicles forming part of that articulated vehicle; and
(c) in the case of a motor vehicle (other than an articulated vehicle) drawing one or more trailers, the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer or trailers drawn by it;
"maximum laden weight" in relation to a vehicle (including a vehicle which is a trailer) means—
(a) in the case of a vehicle as respects which a gross weight not to be exceeded in Great Britain is specified in construction and use requirements (as defined by section 41(8) of the 1988 Act), the weight so specified;
(b) in the case of a vehicle as respects which no such weight is so specified, the weight which the vehicle is designed or adapted not to exceed when in normal use and travelling on a road laden;
"minor road" means a road on which, at its junction with another road, there is placed the sign shown in diagram 601.1 or 602 or the road marking shown in diagram 1003;
"mobile road works" means works on a road carried out by or from a vehicle or vehicles which move slowly along the road or which stop briefly from time to time along that road;
"motorway" means a special road which—
(a) in England or Wales (save as otherwise provided by or under regulations made under, or having effect as if made under, section 17 of the 1984 Act(b)[2]) can be used by traffic only of Class I or II as specified in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980(c)[3]; or
(b) in Scotland can be used by traffic only of Class I or Class II as specified in Schedule 3 to the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
"mph" means miles per hour;
"non-primary route" means a route, not being a primary route or a motorway or part of a primary route or of a motorway;
- ↑ (a) 1985 c.67.
- ↑ (b) Section 17 was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Schedule 8, paragraph 28 and Schedule 9 and by the Road Traffic Act 1991, Schedule 4, paragraph 25 and Schedule 8.
- ↑ (c) Schedule 4 was amended by the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c.54), section 4 and Schedule 3, paragraph 21(3).
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