Regulation 2 Amendment of Regulations

(1)

The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) Regulations 1993^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 6 (exemptions)—

(a)

after paragraph (1)(f) insert—

“(fza)
a person riding in a motor ambulance (within the meaning given by regulation 3(2) of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986^f2) while the person is providing medical attention or treatment to a patient which due to its nature or the medical situation of the patient cannot be delayed;”; and

(b)

after paragraph (4) add—

“(5)
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(fza) “patient” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 2006^f3. ”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1993/176, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
f2: S.I. 1986/1078, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
f3: 2006 c.41. For “patient”, see section 275 of the 2006 Act.