Pursuant to Regulation 90 (1) of the Traffic Regulations 1976, and pursuant to the powers delegated to me by the Director of Land Transport Safety, I, Laszlo Andras Hidvegi, Senior Engineer Safer Vehicles Policy, hereby exempt the vehicles specified in Schedule 1 of this notice from the requirements in Schedule 2, subject to the conditions in Schedule 3, until the time specified in Schedule 4.
Schedule 1
All forklifts not capable of exceeding a speed of 30km/h.
Schedule 2
Regulations 59, 60, 61, 62 and 64 of the Traffic Regulations 1976.
Schedule 3
1. A forklift, to which this exemption applies, must not be operated on a road where the permitted maximum speed for any motor vehicle is more than 50km/h, unless it is operated to load or off-load a vehicle or shift a load, and the part of the road where the forklift is operated is closed off from other vehicular traffic in a safe manner while the forklift is operated on it.
2. When the forklift is used on the road during the hours
of darkness, it must display at least three lamps, the light from which is visible for 100m under normal atmospheric conditions.
3. Two of these lamps must be placed so as to display a substantially white or amber light to the front and sides of the vehicle, one at each side of the vehicle, and the third must be placed so as to display a red light to the rear of the vehicle.
4. The two lamps displaying light to the front of the vehicle must be so fitted and adjusted that they do not dazzle or annoy other road users.
Schedule 4
This exemption will lapse on the day when Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Lighting [Rule 32005] comes into force.
Dated at Wellington this 4th day of July 2003.
LASZLO ANDRAS HIDVEGI, Senior Engineer Safer Vehicles Policy.