The Vehicle Standards do not apply to the following vehicles:(a) a vehicle designed to be controlled by a person walking next to it;(b) a cycle that was a power-assisted pedal cycle within the meaning of a third edition ADR, but that is no longer deemed to be a power-assisted pedal cycle due to amendments made to that third edition ADR.
Note 1:
Also, the Vehicle Standards do not apply to vehicles that are specifically excluded from the definitions of motor vehicle and trailer in section 3(1) of the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999 .
Note 2:
With respect to paragraph (b) , power-assisted pedal cycle is defined in ADR (Definitions and Vehicle Categories). The definition includes vehicles referred to as pedelecs.