Quote Originally Posted by rouppe View Post
A vehicle most definitely includes a motorcycle. Just ask a cop that is writing you a ticket for being "drunk in charge of a vehicle".
We had this discussion in another thread. The Land Transport Act carefully defines what is a vehicle for legislative purposes:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/p...DLM433619.html

Vehicle—
(a) Means a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved; and
(b) Includes a hovercraft, a skateboard, in-line skates, and roller skates; but
(c) Does not include—
(i) A perambulator or pushchair:
(ii) A shopping or sporting trundler not propelled by mechanical power:
(iii) A wheelbarrow or hand-trolley:
(iv) [Repealed]
(v) A pedestrian-controlled lawnmower:
(vi) A pedestrian-controlled agricultural machine not propelled by mechanical power:
(vii) An article of furniture:
(viii) a wheelchair not propelled by mechanical power:
(ix) Any other contrivance specified by the rules not to be a vehicle for the purposes of this definition:
(x) any rail vehicle:
Vehicle: paragraph (c)(iv) of this definition was repealed, as from 22 June 2005, by section 4(11) Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77). See sections 96 to 100 of that Act as to the transitional and savings provisions.
Vehicle: paragraph (viii) of this definition was amended, as from 22 June 2005, by section 4(12) Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77) by substituting “a” for “An invalid”. See sections 96 to 100 of that Act as to the transitional and savings provisions.
Vehicle: paragraph (c)(x) of this definition was inserted, as from 20 July 2005, by section 103(3) Railways Act 2005 (2005 No 37). See sections 105 to 111 of that Act as to the transitional provisions.