4Special-purpose vehicle

4 Special-purpose vehicle

(1)  In these regulations –

special-purpose vehicle means –

(a) a vehicle (other than a caravan, mobile home, mobile library, mobile workshop, mobile laboratory, mobile billboard or a vehicle that the regulations declare not to be a special-purpose vehicle for the purposes of this definition) where the primary purpose for which it was built, or permanently modified, was not the carriage of goods or passengers; or

(b) any of the following vehicles:

(i) a forklift;

(ii) a straddle carrier;

(iii) a mobile cherry picker;

(iv) a mobile crane; or

(c) a vehicle declared by the regulations to be a special-purpose vehicle for the purposes of this definition.

(2)  For the purposes of subregulation (1)  –

goods does not include fuel, water, lubricants, tools or any other equipment or accessories necessary for the normal operation of the vehicle;

passengers does not include the driver, a trainee driver or any person necessary for the normal operation of the vehicle.