{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-2",
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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": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO VEHICLES AND THEIR DRIVERS",
  "text": "Statutory provision\nEffect\nSection 4 of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.\nTo require users of motor vehicles carrying passengers and their luggage for reward to hold road service licences.\n. . .\n. . .\nRegulations under section 45( f) and ( j) of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.\nTo require documents, plates and marks to be carried in or by certain public service vehicles.\nAny order under section 100(2) of the Transport Act 1968.\nTo give effect in Northern Ireland to international agreements relating to vehicles used on international journeys.\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\nArticle 56 and regulations made thereunder and the applicable Community rules.\nTo limit driving time and periods of duty of drivers of goods vehicles and public service vehicles and to provide for the installation of recording equipment in, and the keeping of records on, such vehicles.\nRegulation 19 of the European Communities (International Passenger Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.\nTo impose penalties for contravention of certain requirements relating to international passenger services.\nRegulations made under Article 55 of the Order of 1995.\nTo require the construction, weight, equipment and use of vehicles.\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\nRegulation 3 of the Goods Vehicles (Community Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013.\nTo impose a penalty for the contravention of the requirement to possess a UK licence for the Community, Community licence, driver attestation or an EU driver attestation when using a goods vehicle.\nArticle 18 of Interbus\nTo require the presentation of certain control documents and authorisations, which are required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles.\nArticle 20 of Interbus\nTo require the presentation of a certified true copy of a licence to perform carriage by means of certain international occasional services, which is required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles.\nArticle 8(9) of the RSR Protocol\nTo require the presentation of the contract, or equivalent document, which is required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles, where the vehicles are additional vehicles used by the operator.\nArticle 15 of the RSR Protocol\nTo require the presentation of the authorisation or certified true copy, the licence or certified true copy, or the other control documents, which are required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles.\nArticle 477(8) of the RPT Chapter\nTo require the presentation of the contract, or equivalent document, which is required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles, where the vehicles are additional vehicles used by the operator.\nArticle 483 of the RPT Chapter\nTo require the presentation of the authorisation or certified true copy, the licence or certified true copy, or the other control documents, which are required to be kept on board certain passenger vehicles.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 entry repealed (1.7.2012) by Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 2), s. 60(2), Sch. 4; S.R. 2012/262, art. 2 (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "SR 1987/383"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "SR 1987/383"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 9(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (27.5.2013) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Community Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/115), regs. 1, 14(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 9(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 added (27.5.2013) by The Goods Vehicles (Community Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/115), regs. 1, 14(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 12(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (1.4.2025) by The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 9(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
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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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