Electric Personal Vehicles (Use on Highways) Bill (HL Bill 46)

1 Use of self-balancing electric personal vehicles on highways

(1) In the case of a vehicle which is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric personal
vehicle—

(a) no statutory provision prohibiting or restricting the use of footways
5shall prohibit or restrict the use of that vehicle on a footway;

(b) it shall be treated for the purposes of the Road Traffic Regulation Act
1984 and the Road Traffic Act 1988 (except section 22A of that Act
(causing danger to road users by interfering with motor vehicles etc))
and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 as not being a motor vehicle;

(c) 10sections 1 to 4, 21, 34, 163, 170 and 181 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 shall
not apply to it; and

(d) it shall be exempted from the requirements of section 83 of the Road
Traffic Act 1988.

(2) In this section—

• 15“footway” means a way which is a footway, footpath or bridleway within
  the meaning of the Highways Act 1980 or is a restricted byway within
  the meaning of Part 2 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;
  and in its application to Scotland means a way over which the public
  has a right of passage on foot only or a bridleway within the meaning
  20of section 47 of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

• “self-balancing electric personal vehicle” means a small, electric vehicle
  equipped with gyroscopic sensors designed to carry one person; and

• “statutory provision” means a provision contained in, or having effect
  under, any enactment.

2 25Extent, commencement and short title

(1) This Act shall apply to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(2) This Act shall come into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Electric Personal Vehicles (Use on Highways) Act
2011.