{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-214",
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  "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/214",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "214",
  "heading": "Application of Order to the Crown",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make regulations exempting from the provisions of this Order, or of any regulation 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.\n(2) 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.\n(3) Subject to the foregoing paragraphs, the provisions of this Order, other than Article 56, 58(2) and Part VIII, shall bind the Crown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1993 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1997 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SR 1993/424"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/214",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+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."
}