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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "European Communities\nRoad Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 19th January 2017\nComing into operation 20th February 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.\nThe Department for Infrastructure is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers.",
  "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) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory 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. 1972/1811; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/25/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:22.129742+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."
}