Article 214 Application of Order to the CrownF1

The Department may make regulations exempting from the provisions of this Order, or of any regulationF2 or order made under this Order, vehicles owned or used by or for the purposes of any service of the Crown, and persons driving such vehicles, and for making such modifications of those provisions as appear to the Department to be necessary for the purposes of any such exemption.

References in paragraph (1) to vehicles owned or used by or for the purposes of any service of the Crown, and to persons driving such vehicles, shall include references to vehicles used for the purposes of the Civil Defence Acts (Northern Ireland) 1938 to 1950, and to persons driving such vehicles.

Subject to the foregoing paragraphs, the provisions of this Order, other thanF4 Article 56, 58(2) and Part VIII, shall bind the Crown.