r 3(1)
(1)
A motor vehicle (not being a trailer) designed only or mainly for agricultural operations and used on a road only for agricultural operations, including mobile or movable huts, galleys, and similar motor vehicles used on a road solely in connection with such operations.
(2)
Nothing in subclause (1) applies to—
a motor vehicle designed only or mainly for the spreading or cartage and spreading of lime or fertiliser if it is used on a road for the cartage of lime or fertiliser; or
a motor vehicle designed only or mainly as a weed sprayer on a truck chassis.
A motor vehicle (not being a trailer) owned by a person carrying on business as a farmer and used on a road only in proceeding, in connection with the owner’s agricultural operations, from one part of a farm to another part of the same farm or from one farm to another farm that is owned or managed by the same person.
A tractor, or traction engine, if used on a road either—
only for agricultural operations; or
mainly for agricultural operations and otherwise solely in connection with the construction or maintenance of roads.
A tractor, and a motor vehicle adapted in its design mainly for use as a tractor, if the tractor or motor vehicle is owned by a person carrying on business as a farmer and is used on a road only for all or any of the following purposes:
for the owner’s agricultural operations:
for the cartage of milk, cream, or whey to or from a dairy factory:
for the cartage of any other produce of a farm, farm implements, stock, or other requisites of any kind whatsoever for a farm if they are carried from a farm to another farm that is owned or managed by the same person or if they are taken during any 1 trip along not more than 21 km of public highway in going from the owner’s farm or other place of garage and in returning to that farm or that place.
A tractor does not cease to be a tractor for the purposes of subclause (1) merely because it is fitted with a readily detachable box or platform that is used for the carriage of goods.
A tractor owned and used by a person carrying on business as an agricultural contractor and used on a road only for all or any of the following purposes:
the cartage by means of a trailer of farm implements if the tractor and trailer are not taken during any 1 trip for the cartage of farm implements along more than 21 km of public highway in going from the usual place of garage and in returning to that place:
the haulage on its own wheels of a farm implement or farm machine.
A tractor that—
is designed and used partly for the purpose of loading lime or fertiliser into topdressing aircraft and partly for drawing a trailer that is designed and used exclusively for carrying aviation fuel in a permanently attached tank for use in topdressing aircraft, and for no other purpose; and
is not taken during any 1 trip along more than 21 km of public highway in going from the usual place of garage and returning to that place.
A trailer described in subclause (1)(a) while being drawn by a tractor described in subclause (1).
A motor vehicle designed, and used on a road, only for driving, carrying, or propelling, any of the following:
aerodrome runway sweepers:
electrical substations:
filters for transformer oil:
log haulers that are stationary when hauling logs:
aero engine test benches.
Subclause (1) does not apply to a motor vehicle unless the relevant machinery specified in that subclause is permanently attached to the motor vehicle.
Clause 7 heading: amended, on 1 April 2005, by regulation 5 of the Land Transport Management (Apportionment and Refund of Excise Duty and Excise-Equivalent Duty) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/40).
A tractor, or self-propelled grassmower, that is used only—
for the cultivation or upkeep of land used for cemetery purposes or for the purpose of sport, recreation, or education; or
for the cutting of grass verges of roads.
A tractor owned by a local authority and used only for the construction, maintenance, or mowing of stopbanks and the banks of rivers, streams, drains, canals, or other watercourses.
A mobile or movable hut, galley, or similar motor vehicle that is used on a road solely in connection with the construction or maintenance of roads.
A tractor used only for shunting railway rolling stock.
Any traction engine.
Any forklift.
An aerodrome crash fire tender that is used on a road only in emergencies.
A motor vehicle, used only in connection with the embarking and disembarking of ships’ passengers or for loading and unloading ships’ mails, cargo, and passengers’ baggage, and used on a public highway only when proceeding unladen from one wharf to another wharf or from its usual place of storage to a wharf and in returning to that place of storage.
A trailer while being drawn by a motor vehicle specified in clauses 7 to 14.
Diane Morcom,Clerk of the Executive Council.