{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-19C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-19C.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/154",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/19C",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19C",
  "heading": "Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make regulations for any purpose for which regulations may be made under the provisions of this Part and the relevant provisions of the Offenders Order and for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under any of those provisions, and otherwise for the purpose of carrying any of those provisions into effect.\n(1A) In particular, but without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the regulations may make provision with respect to —\n(a) licences under this Part Great Britain licences,, Community licences and counterparts of such licences,\n(b) making any particulars with respect to any persons—\n(i) who are disqualified,\n(ii) whose licences are suspended, or\n(iii) whose counterparts of licences under this Part, of Great Britain licences or of Community licences (as the case may be) are endorsed,\navailable for use by the Royal Ulster Constabulary,\n(c) preventing a person holding more than one licence,\n(d) facilitating identification of holders of licences,\n(e) providing for the issue, on payment of such fee, and compliance with such requirements, as may be prescribed, of. . . licences and counterparts of licences in the place of licences or counterparts of licences lost or defaced,\n(ea) providing for the issue on payment of such fee as may be prescribed of new counterparts of Great Britain licences or of Community licences in the place of counterparts of Great Britain licences or (as the case may be) of Community licences that are lost or defaced,\n(eb) providing for the issue, on payment of such fee, and compliance with such conditions, as may be prescribed, of confirmation in writing of a person's entitlement to drive,\n(f) the correspondence. . . of one class of motor vehicle with another class of motor vehicle or of one test of competence to drive with another (whatever the law under which the classification is made or the test conducted),\n(g) the effect of a change in the classification of motor vehicles. . . on licences then in force or issued or on the right to or the subsequent granting of licences or on Great Britain licences or Community licences then in force, and\n(h) enabling a person—\n(i) whose entitlement to the grant of a licence to drive a class of motor vehicle is preserved by regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (g), and\n(ii) who satisfies such conditions as may be prescribed,\nto drive (and be employed in driving) that class of motor vehicle while he applies for the licence to be granted to him.\n(2) The regulations may—\n(a) provide for exemptions from any provision of the regulations, and\n(b) contain such incidental and supplemental provisions as the Department considers expedient for the purposes of the regulations,\nand nothing in the other provisions of this Part shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph or section 17 of the 1954 c. 33 (N.I.) Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In this Article “the relevant provision of the Offenders Order” means the following provisions of that Order: Articles 6, 11, 12, 26 to 28, 29, 33, 35 to 38 40 to 53 and 92ZA .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1996 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1996/426"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "2003 NI 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SR 2002/374"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "SR 1997/241"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 19C(1A)(eb) inserted (15.11.2007) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3)(4), 34; S.R. 2007/454, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 19C(3) repealed (15.11.2007) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3)(4), 79(3)(a), 86(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I; S.R. 2007/454, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "2003 NI 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2007/916",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/19C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+00:00"
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  "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."
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