Guidance

Powered transporters

The law on using lightweight transport vehicles which transport one person.

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Information sheet providing guidance to help retailers, manufacturers, importers and dealers understand the law on novel lightweight transport devices used to transport a single person (powered transporters).

Powered transporters include devices such as:

  • electric scooters
  • hoverboards
  • U-wheels
  • powered mini scooters (go-peds)
  • powered unicycles

Updates to this page

Published 10 December 2015
Last updated 13 July 2020 + show all updates
  1. Added reference to new e-scooter trials and a link to user guidance.

  2. Contact email address changed to micromobility@dft.gov.uk.

  3. Guidance updated.

  4. First published.

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