Regulation 2
New rule 50A
of Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2026
In the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) Rules (R 9), after rule 50, insert —“Goods vehicle not to be fitted with cage50A.—
Unless the Registrar permits otherwise, every goods vehicle which has an open deck for the carriage of goods and is to be used to carry any person on the floor of the entire or part of the open deck of the vehicle, must not be fitted with a cage for that entire or part of the open deck.
In this rule, “cage” means a structure made of any material (including, but not limited to, bars, wires and meshes) or a combination of material —
that is fitted to a vehicle, whether or not it is also attached to the vehicle’s overhead structure referred to in rule 50(1); and
that forms —
a full enclosure around any person carried on the floor of the vehicle; or
an enclosure that partially surrounds any person carried on the floor of the vehicle,but excludes any protective railings referred to in rule 51.”.