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Width—2.75 metres and no more than 1.25 metres to the right of the centreline of the vehicle

Rear overhang—4.5 metres except sheer legs
—6.5 metres for sheer legs provided that they are reduced to the minimum practicable overhang travelling from job to job and rise to 3.7 metres above the ground when travelling.

Overall length of a rigid vehicle—11.6 metres when carrying long power poles

(SL4) Rowing skiffs on regulation sized vehicles or trailers

On motor vehicles
Front overhang—4.5 metres
Rear overhang—the lesser of 6.0 metres or the forward distance of the vehicle

On trailers
Rear overhang—6.5 metres
Distance ahead of king pin or point of attachment of tow bar to towing vehicle—3.0 metres

(SL5) Surf boats on trailers
Rear overhang—4.5 metres

(SL6) Yachts and pleasure boats on trailers and stanchions attached to the trailers
Width—2.9 metres

(SL7) Disabled regulation sized and overdimensional vehicles that have been involved in a crash or suffered mechanical failure and are being towed by a breakdown recovery vehicle
Any of the dimension limits imposed by regulation 488 of the Traffic Regulations 1976 may be exceeded.

Second Schedule
Operating conditions
The special type loads and vehicles described in this notice must be operated in compliance with the dimension limits and requirements set out in the corresponding documents SL1 to SL7 (inclusive) produced by the Land Transport Safety Authority.

Signed at Wellington this 19th day of August 1998.
W. R. PETTERSSON, Senior Engineer, Safer Roads.

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General Approval—Overdimension Agricultural Vehicles
Pursuant to regulation 49 of the Traffic Regulations 1976, and by way of a subdelegation from the Director of Land Transport Safety dated 18 December 1996, I, Wayne Robert Pettersson, Senior Engineer, hereby approve the operation of the vehicle types described in this notice contrary to the provisions of regulations 488 to 48p.

Vehicles of the types described in the First Schedule and which exceed the dimension limits described in the Second Schedule cannot operate unless a specific approval has been issued to that vehicle under regulation 49A.

This notice comes into effect on the 1st day of September 1998.

First Schedule
Types of Vehicles
Overdimension Agricultural Vehicles within the dimension limits described in the second schedule, including those not covered by the existing exemption in the Traffic Regulations 1976.

Definitions
In this schedule—

“Agricultural machine” means a motor vehicle (but does not include hedge trimmers, verge mowers and overwidth fertiliser spreaders) not being a trailer that has been designed exclusively for agricultural operations and is only used on a road when proceeding to or from a farm, or when being inspected, serviced or repaired.

“Agricultural operations” means operations concerned directly with the management of a farm.

“Agricultural trailer” means a trailer that has been designed exclusively for agricultural operations and is only used on the road when proceeding to or from a farm, or when being inspected, serviced or repaired.

“Agricultural vehicles” include agricultural trailers and agricultural machines.

“Auger” means a loading conveyor on a trailer used for agricultural purposes.

Second Schedule
Dimension limits
Overall width— 4.3 metres (see note below)
Overall length— 12.5 metres for an agricultural vehicle not towing a trailer
— 20.0 metres for an agricultural vehicle towing a trailer
— 25.0 metres for an agricultural vehicle towing an auger
Rear overhang— 6.0 metres for all vehicles except rear wheel steer harvesters which may exceed 6.0 metres
Front overhang (distance ahead of front of driver’s seat)— 5.0 metres (see note below)
Height— 4.25 metres