{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-specified-restrictions-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-specified-restrictions-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/380",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Specified Restrictions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-specified-restrictions-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Non-application of Article 19A of the 1981 Order",
  "text": "Article 19A of the 1981 Order does not apply to—\n(a) any member of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of Her Majesty, while in uniform and driving a motor vehicle which is the property of the Crown;\n(b) any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary while driving a motor vehicle which is being used for police purposes;\n(c) the holder of a driving licence granted under the 1981 Order by reason of a test of competence passed by him at a time when he held a licence or permit which, by virtue of an order made under the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Act 1952, entitled him to drive motor vehicles in Northern Ireland; or\n(d) any person while driving a motor vehicle the maximum speed of which is restricted by the Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 to 45 miles per hour or less.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 14.12.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 39"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1989 No. 203"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/380",
      "affecting_title": "Motor Vehicles (Specified Restrictions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2026/126",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Specified Restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/380/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:27.258058+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."
}