Section 235 | Vehicles to which this Chapter applies

(1)This Chapter applies to cars, vans, motor cycles and cycles.

(2)“Car” means a mechanically propelled road vehicle which is not—

(a)a goods vehicle,

(b)a motor cycle, or

(c)a vehicle of a type not commonly used as a private vehicle and unsuitable to be so used.

(3)“Van” means a mechanically propelled road vehicle which—

(a)is a goods vehicle, and

(b)has a design weight not exceeding 3,500 kilograms,

and which is not a motor cycle.

(4)“Motor cycle” has the meaning given by section 185(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52).

(5)“Cycle” has the meaning given by section 192(1) of that Act.

(6)In this section—