{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2026/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Road Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 18th June 2026\nComing into operation 1st August 2026\nThe Department for Infrastructure, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 9(2) and (4)(b), and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and now vested in it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "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. 1)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment was dissolved"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”; Article 9 was substituted by Article 3 and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and paragraph (2) was amended by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1996 No. 426"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "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)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/118/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:13.233613+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."
}