{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motorways-traffic-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motorways-traffic-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/135",
  "legislation_title": "The Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motorways-traffic-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Use of motorway by excluded traffic",
  "text": "(1) Excluded traffic may use a motorway in accordance with the following provisions:—\n(a) traffic of Classes III or IV if authorised by the Department may use a motorway for the maintenance, repair, cleaning or clearance of any part of a motorway or for the erection, laying, placing, maintenance, testing, alteration, repair or removal of any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over a motorway;\n(b) pedestrians may use a motorway—\n(i) when it is necessary for them to do so as a result of an accident or emergency or of a vehicle being at rest on a motorway in any of the circumstances specified in regulation 6(1) or (2); or\n(ii) in any of the circumstances specified in regulation 14(b), (d), (e) or (f):\n(2) The Department may authorise the use of a motorway by all or any kind of excluded traffic on occasion or in emergency or for the purpose of enabling such traffic to cross a motorway or to secure access to land abutting on or adjacent to a motorway.\n(3) Where by reason of any emergency the use of a road (not being a motorway) by all or any kind of excluded traffic is rendered impossible or unsuitable the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland or any police officer of or above the rank of Chief Inspector authorised by him in that behalf may—\n(a) authorise excluded traffic of all or any kind to use a motorway as an alternative road for the period during which the use of the other road by such traffic continues to be impossible or unsuitable; and\n(b) relax any prohibition or restriction imposed by these regulations insofar as he considers it necessary to do so in connection with the use of a motorway by excluded traffic in pursuance of any such authorisation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 28.5.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/135/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:37:00.067401+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."
}