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The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

S.R. 2011/328 · Made 22 September 2011

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Road Traffic And Vehicles

Made 22nd September 2011

Coming into operation 21st October 2011

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 55(1) and (2) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995f1:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1995 No. 2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and shall come into operation on 21st October 2011.

2Amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

For regulation 44(5)(g) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999f1 substitute—

“(g)

used as a search and rescue vehicle on the authority of the Chief Constable on search and rescue operations;”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 22nd September 2011

L.S.

Deirdre Kenny

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 which govern the construction, equipment, maintenance and use of motor vehicles.

Regulation 44 (audible warning instruments) is amended to permit the fitting of a bell, gong, siren or two-tone horn to a motor vehicle which is used for search and rescue operations.