{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-wearing-of-seat-belts-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-wearing-of-seat-belts-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111175248",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-wearing-of-seat-belts-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Road Traffic Act 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 14 (seat belts: adults)—\n(a) in subsection (2)—\n(i) omit paragraph (aa);\n(ii) in paragraph (bb)—\n(aa) for “shall, for the purpose of implementing the seat belt Directive,” substitute “may”;\n(bb) omit “other than the United Kingdom”;\n(b) omit subsection (7).\n(3) In section 15 (restriction on carrying children not wearing seat belts in motor vehicles)—\n(a) omit subsection (5A);\n(b) in subsection (6)—\n(i) in paragraph (b)—\n(aa) for “shall, for the purpose of implementing the seat belt Directive,” substitute “may”;\n(bb) omit “other than the United Kingdom”;\n(ii) omit the words after paragraph (b);\n(c) in subsection (9), omit the definition of “the seat belt Directive”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 14 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1988 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3105) and the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), section 110."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 15 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 8, the Road Traffic Act 1988 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3105), and the Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1892)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111175248/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:11.503505+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}