{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/2994",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Wearing of protective headgear",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make regulations requiring, subject to such exceptions as may be specified in the regulations, persons driving or riding (otherwise than in sidecars) on motor cycles or other motor vehicles of any class or description specified in the regulations to wear protective headgear of such description as may be so specified.\n(2) A requirement imposed by regulations under this Article shall not apply to any follower of the Sikh religion while he is wearing a turban.\n(3) A person who drives or rides on a motor cycle or other motor vehicle in contravention of regulations under this Article is guilty of an offence; but notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law no person other than the person actually committing the contravention is guilty of an offence by reason of the contravention unless the person actually committing the contravention is a child under the age of 16 years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(1) inserted (25.11.2016) by Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 11), ss. 21(1)(a), 26(1); S.R. 2016/399, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 27(3) inserted (25.11.2016) by Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 11), ss. 21(1)(b), 26(1); S.R. 2016/399, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/2994/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:55.991221+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."
}