{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/140",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "For Part 1 (fire extinguishing apparatus) of Schedule 7 to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1999 substitute—\n“PART 1\nFire Extinguishing Apparatus\nRegulation 51(1)\n1. (1) A fire extinguisher which complies in all respects with the specification for portable fire extinguishers issued by the British Standards Institution numbered BS EN 3-7:2004+A1:2007 and which—\n(a) has a minimum test fire rating of 8A or 34B;\n(b) contains water or foam; and\n(c) has a minimum capacity of two litres.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to a minibus if it carries apparatus for extinguishing fire which would meet the requirements of that sub-paragraph were there substituted—\n(a) for a reference in that sub-paragraph to any British Standard, a reference to a corresponding standard;\n(b) for the reference in that sub-paragraph to a test fire rating of 8A or the reference to a test fire rating of 34B, a reference to an equivalent level of performance specified in the corresponding standard; and\n(c) for the reference in regulation 51(2)(b) to the appropriate British Standards Institution Specification number, a reference to a marking indicating compliance with the corresponding standard.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “corresponding standard”, in relation to a British Standard, means—\n(a) a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of an EEA State or the Republic of Turkey;\n(b) any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any EEA State or the Republic of Turkey; or\n(c) a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any EEA State or the Republic of Turkey,\nwhere the standard or code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to fire extinguishers, a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the British Standard and contains a requirement as respect the markings of fire extinguishers equivalent to that provided by the British Standard.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (3)—\n“EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the EEA Agreement; and\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1999 No. 454; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cm 2073; O.J. No. L1, 3.1.94, p.3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cm 2183"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/140/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:55.017889+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."
}