Article 2 General interpretation

“carriage of goods” includes the haulage of goods;

“carriageway” means a way constituted or comprised in a road being a way over which the public have a right of way for the passage of vehicles;

“constable” does not include a member of the Naval, Military or Royal Air Force Police;

“cycle” means a bicycle, a tricycle, or a cycle having 4 or more wheels, not being in any case a motor vehicle;

“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;

“driver”, where a separate person acts as a steersman of a motor vehicle, includes that person as well as any other person engaged in the driving of the vehicle;

“enactment” includes any order, regulation, rule, bye-law or other instrument made under a statutory provision;

“footpath” means a way over which the public have a right of way on foot only, not being a footway or a part of a road;

“footway” means a way comprised in a road which also comprises a carriageway, being a way over which the public have a right of way on foot only;

“goods” includes goods or burden of any description;

“goods vehicle” means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods, or a trailer so constructed or adapted;

“international road haulage permit” means a licence, permit, authorisation or other document issued in pursuance of a Community instrument relating to the carriage of goods by road between member States or an international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party and which relates to the international carriage of goods by road;

F2“the Offenders Order” means the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

“the Order of 1981” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981F3;

F4“the Order of 2007” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;

“owner”, in relation to a vehicle which is the subject of a hiring or hire-purchase agreement, means the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;

“public path” and “public right of way” have the same meaning as in the Access to the Countryside (Northern Ireland) Order 1983F5;

“public road” includes any part of a public road and any bridge or tunnel over or through which a public road passes;

“road” includes a public road and any street, carriageway, highway or roadway to which the public has access;

“the Road Traffic Orders” means this OrderF6 the Order of 1981 F7. . . the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997F8F9. . . the Order of 2007F10and the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;

“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954F11;

F12“taxi” has the same meaning as in the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;

“traffic” includes the passage of animals on a road;

“traffic sign” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 28 of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

“trolley vehicle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle adapted for use without rails under power transmitted to the vehicle from some external source (whether or not there is in addition a source of power on board the vehicle).