Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

These regulations may be cited as The Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 28th May 2008.

In these regulations—

• “approved driving instructor” and “approved motorcycle instructor” means a person whose name is entered in the register established by Article 48(8) of The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;

• “bus” means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 28 seated passengers (exclusive of the driver);

• “bus lane” means the area of hard shoulder of a length of motorway specified in Schedules 1 and 2;

• “central reservation” means that part of a motorway other than the hard shoulder which separates the carriageway used by vehicles travelling in one direction from the carriageway used by vehicles travelling in the opposite direction;

• “certificate” means a document issued to an approved driving instructor or approved motorcycle instructor as evidence of registration as shown in Part 1 and Schedule 5 of The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010;

• “excluded traffic” means traffic which is not traffic of Classes I or II in Schedule 1 to the Order;

• “hard shoulder” means a part of the motorway adjacent to the carriageway designed to take the weight of a vehicle;

• “motorway” means a road designated as a special road under Article 15 of the Order or under any statutory provision repealed by the Order and includes trunk roads to which Part III of the Order applies by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 to the Order;

• “the Order” means the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993;

• “traffic sign” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 28 of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;

• “verge” means any part of a motorway which is not a carriageway, a hard shoulder, or a central reservation; and

• “weekday” means a day which is neither a Saturday nor a Sunday.

A vehicle shall be treated for the purposes of these regulations as being on any part of a motorway if any part of the vehicle (whether it is at rest or not) is on any part of the motorway.