{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-671/article-6",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1991/671",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 16 December 1991 relating to the compulsory use of safety belts and child-restraint systems in vehicles (91/671/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-671",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States may, for transport in their territory, with the Commission's agreement, grant exemptions other than those laid down in Article 5, in order:\nto take account of specific physical conditions, or particular circumstances of limited duration,\nto allow certain types of occupation to be carried out effectively,\nto ensure that the police, security or emergency services can perform their duties properly,\nwhere two child restraints are fitted in the rear of M1 and N1 vehicles and lack of space prevents the fitting of a third, to allow a third child, aged three or over and less than 150 cm in height, to be restrained by means of a safety belt for adults,\nto allow children aged three and over to be restrained by means of an adult safety belt, in seats other than the front seats of M1 and N1 vehicles, for occasional transport over a short distance when no child restraint or an insufficient number of child restraints is available in the vehicle,\nto take account of the specific conditions of use of M2 and M3 vehicles for local transport in urban and built-up areas, or in which standing is allowed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2003/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 April 2003 amending Council Directive 91/671/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to compulsory use of safety belts in vehicles of less than 3,5 tonnes."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1991/671/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:23.969467+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."
}