New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

5 Use of roads and general weight limitations

• (1) A person may not operate a motor vehicle if the weight of the vehicle on its axles exceeds the weight prescribed for its axles by section 4.3 or section 4.4 or section 4.5 of Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Dimensions and Mass 2002.

  (2) [Revoked]

  (3) [Revoked]

  (4) [Revoked]

  (5) No person shall operate any heavy motor vehicle on any Class C road, except for the purposes of the delivery or collection of goods or passengers, or any of those things, to or from locations directly accessible only from such roads.

  Regulation 5 was substituted by regulation 5(1) Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, Amendment No 5 (SR 1988/325).

  Subclause (1) was substituted, as from 1 July 2002, by regulation 3 Heavy Motor Vehicle Amendment Regulations 2002 (SR 2002/141).

  Subclauses (2) and (3) were revoked, as from 1 July 2002, by regulation 3 Heavy Motor Vehicle Amendment Regulations 2002 (SR 2002/141).

  Subclause (4) was substituted by regulation 3 Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, Amendment No 6 (SR 1989/179).

  Subclause (4) proviso was amended, as from 16 April 1998, by regulation 2 Heavy Motor Vehicle Amendment Regulations 1998 (SR 1998/44) by substituting the words “, and a certificate of loading under section 79B of the Transport Act 1962 stating that the vehicle or combination meets the standards set out in regulation 16A(1) has not been issued” for the words “and the vehicle or combination does not comply with all of the applicable provisions in regulation 16A(1) of these regulations”.

  Subclause (4) proviso was further amended, as from 3 May 1999, by regulation 2 Heavy Motor Vehicle Amendment Regulation 1999 (SR 1999/86) by inserting, after the expression “section 79B of the Transport Act 1962”, the expression “or under the Land Transport Act 1998”.

  Subclause (4) was revoked, as from 1 July 2002, by regulation 3 Heavy Motor Vehicle Amendment Regulations 2002 (SR 2002/141).