{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motorways-traffic-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motorways-traffic-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemptions from restriction on stopping",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) it shall be lawful for a vehicle being driven on a carriageway to stop—\n(a) because of a breakdown or mechanical defect or lack of fuel, oil or water required for the vehicle; or\n(b) because of an accident, illness or other emergency; or\n(c) to permit any person carried in or on the vehicle to recover or move any object which has fallen on a motorway; or\n(d) to permit any person carried in or on the vehicle to give help which is required by any other person in any of the circumstances specified in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.\n(2) Where a vehicle is stopped on a carriageway for any of the reasons mentioned in paragraph (1) the vehicle shall, as soon and insofar as is reasonably practicable, be driven or moved off the carriageway on to, and may stop and remain at rest on, the left-hand hard shoulder except that in the case of a carriageway made up of four or more traffic lanes the vehicle may stop and remain at rest on the hard shoulder which is equidistant or nearest to the vehicle.\n(3) A vehicle at rest on a hard shoulder shall so far as is reasonably practicable be allowed to remain at rest on that hard shoulder in such a position only that no part of it or of the load carried on it shall obstruct or be a cause of danger to vehicles using the carriageway.\n(4) A vehicle shall not remain at rest on a hard shoulder for longer than is necessary in the circumstances.\n(5) The prohibition in regulation 5 shall not apply to a vehicle which is prevented from proceeding along the carriageway by the presence of any other vehicle, a person or object.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}