Article 42 Exemption for fire engines, etc.
Northern Ireland
No enactment imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for F1fire and rescue, ambulance, police, military or customs purposes, if compliance with that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle on that occasion for any of those purposes.
In paragraph (1) the reference to ambulance purposes includes a reference to the purposes of a mobile coronary care unit.
Nothing in this Article shall affect any civil claim for injury or damage to person or property.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in art. 42(1) substituted (1.7.2006) by Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1254 (N.I. 9)), arts. 1(3), 63(1), Sch. 3 para. 23 (with arts. 49, 62); S.R. 2006/257, art. 2(b)(d)
Notes on the whole Order
Textual amendments
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functions transf.by SR 1999/481
- F2
mod. (retrosp.) by 2005 NI 14