{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) and (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-authorised-weight-and-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Road Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 15th September 2017\nComing into operation 16th October 2017\nThe Department for Infrastructure makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and Articles 55 and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and now vested in it.\nThe 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 and railways and railway transport.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); Article 55 was amended by Article 42(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/191/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:16.514930+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."
}