Exemption From Specified Requirements of the Traffic Regulations 1976 Pursuant to regulation 90 of the Traffic Regulations 1976, I, Peter Waring, Senior Policy Engineer, hereby exempt the motor vehicles specified in Schedule 1 of this notice from the requirements of the Traffic Regulations 1976 listed in Schedule 2, subject to the conditions specified in Schedule 3. The notice of exemption of certain motor vehicles owned by Air New Zealand Limited from particular equipment requirements while used on specified roads published in the New Zealand Gazette dated 4 February 1982 is hereby revoked. Schedule 1 Tractors owned by any airport service provider operating at airports from which scheduled air services are provided, together with any trailer or trolley while drawn by such tractors. Schedule 2 Regulations 58 to 64 (inclusive) Regulations 68 to 76 (inclusive) Regulations 78, 81 and 82 Regulations 84 to 87 of the Traffic Regulations 1976. Schedule 3 1. This exemption applies to the specified classes of vehicles when they are being used within the airport and roads within the environs of the airport being a reasonable access to terminal buildings and facilities necessary for the effective operation of the airport functions. 2. Maintenance That all tractors, trailers and trolleys herein exempted have a maintenance schedule and are checked against the schedule periodically. Records are to be kept and made available to Land Transport Safety Authority Compliance Officers on request. 3. Lights and Audible Warning Devices Tractors at all times while in operation shall display one or more revolving or flashing amber lights fitted as high as practicable behind the driver, visible in all directions, and they shall be fitted with an efficient audible warning device. No tractor, trailer or trolley shall be operated on any road during the hours of darkness unless it displays at least three lamps, the light of which is visible from 100 metres under normal atmospheric conditions. Two of these lamps shall be placed so as to display a white light to the front and shall wherever practicable give an indication of the vehicle width. The third lamp shall be placed so as to display a red light to the rear of the tractor, trailer or trolley. 4. Brakes on Tractors (a) Every tractor towing any combination of trailers or trolleys specified in paragraph 5 of this notice shall have a service brake capable of bringing the combination of fully laden vehicles to a standstill within a distance of 7 metres from a speed of 15 km/h without assistance from the compression of the engine. (b) Every tractor shall have a parking brake capable of bringing all combinations of fully laden vehicles so specified to a standstill within a distance of 18 metres from a speed of 15 km/h or is capable of holding the whole combination of vehicles fully laden at rest on a grade of 1 in 5. 5. Reflectors All trailers and trolleys shall display approved red or amber reflective materials along the sides of the vehicle, or three red or amber approved reflectors evenly spaced along the sides of the vehicle, and red or amber reflective materials across the full width of the rear tray, or two approved red or amber reflectors, one either side of the rear tray. The approved materials may be fitted as well as the reflective materials. Tractors shall be fitted with at least two approved red reflectors, one either side of the rear tray. 6. Towing A tractor shall tow no more than a rake of either; (a) Six fully loaded container trailers (b) Six fully loaded baggage trolleys (c) Three fully loaded cargo or flat top trailers; or (d) Six unloaded cargo or flat top trailers on any road. 7. Operational Speeds The speed of any tractor, trailer or trolley shall not exceed 15 km/h on any road. 8. Conditions of Operation No tractor, trailer or trolley shall be on, or operate on, any road during the hours of darkness unless it is clearly visible at a distance of 50 metres by artificial street lighting. Signed at Wellington this 3rd day of December 1998. P. WARING, acting under the authority delegated to me by way of instrument of delegation dated 23 December 1996.