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4.(1) No duty shall be chargeable under this Act in respect of mechanically propelled vehicles of any of the following descriptions (a)fire engines; (b)vehicles kept by a fire authority while they are used or kept on a road for the purposes of its fire brigade service; (c)ambulances; (d)road rollers; (e)vehicles used on tram lines; (f)vehicles used or kept on a road for no purpose other than the haulage of lifeboats and the conveyance of the necessary gear of the lifeboats which are being hauled; (g)vehicles (including cycles with an attachment for propelling them by mechanical power) which do not exceed [ten] hundred-weight in weight unladen and are adapted, and used or kept on a road, for invalids; (h)road construction vehicles used or kept on a road solely for the conveyance of built-in road construction machinery (with or without articles or material used for the purposes of that machinery); (i)vehicles constructed or adapted, and used, solely for the conveyance of machinery for spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow or for the conveyance of such machinery and articles and material used for the purposes of that machinery; (j)district council's watering vehicles; (k)tower wagons used solely by a street lighting authority, or by any person acting in pursuance of a contract with such an authority, for the purpose of installing or maintaining materials or apparatus for lighting streets, roads or public places. (2) In this section "built-in road construction machinery", in relation to a vehicle, means road construction machinery built in as part of the vehicle or permanently attached thereto; "district council's watering vehicle" means a vehicle used by a district council, or by any person acting in pursuance of a contract with that council, for the purpose of cleansing or watering roads or cleansing gulleys; "road construction machinery" means a machine or contrivance suitable for use for the construction or repair of roads and used for no purpose other than the construction or repair of roads at the public expense; "road construction vehicle" means a vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the conveyance of built-in road construction machinery and not constructed or adapted for the conveyance of any other load except articles and material used for the purposes of that machinery; "street lighting authority" means any district council or Ministry having power under any statutory provision to provide or maintain materials or apparatus for lighting streets, roads or public places; "tower wagon" has the same meaning as in Schedule 4.
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