Article 1 Title and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on the expiration of two months from the day on which it is made.

(3)

Articles 55 and 56 and Article 75(2) so far as it relates to—

(a)

the 1978 c. 53. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978;

(b)

the provisions of the Order of 1981 and Article 4 of the 1982 NI 18. Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 relating to Article 174A of the Order of 1981;

(c)

paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 to the Order of 1995; and

(d)

Article 61(1), (2) and (4),

shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appointF1.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: fully exercised by SR 1997/410; SR 1998/296

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1: functions transf.by SR 1999/481
F2: mod. (retrosp.) by 2005 NI 14