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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/537",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 by inserting a new regulation 125A.\nRegulation 125A(1) and (2) prohibit a person from driving, or causing or permitting a person to drive, a motor vehicle on a road if the driver is using a hand-held mobile telephone or similar device. Regulation 125A(3) prohibits a person from using a mobile telephone or similar device while supervising a holder of a provisional licence at a time when the provisional licence holder is driving a motor vehicle on a road. It is an offence under Article 58 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 to contravene these requirements. Regulation 125A(4) provides a definition of devices that are considered similar to hand-held mobile telephones for the purpose of these Regulations. This definition excludes two-way radios.\nRegulation 125A(5) provides that in specific circumstances a person will not be in contravention of the regulation. Where a person makes a call to the emergency services on 999 or 112 in response to a genuine emergency where it is unsafe or impracticable for him (or the provisional licence holder) to cease driving while the call is being made, the regulation is not contravened.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/537/note",
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  "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."
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