Introductory text

Road Traffic And Vehicles

Made 15th September 2017

Coming into operation 16th October 2017

The Department for Infrastructure^f1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 and Articles 55 and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995^f3 and now vested in it^f4.

The Department for Infrastructure is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act in relation to measures relating to the carriage of passengers and goods by road^f5 and railways and railway transport^f6.

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Footnotes

f1: Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment was dissolved
f2: 1972 c. 68; section 2(2) is amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)
f3: S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); Article 55 was amended by Article 42(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007
f4: See Article 8(1)(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 5 to, the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)
f5: S.I. 1996/266, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations
f6: S.I. 1996/266