{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-42.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/276",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Exemption for fire engines, etc.",
  "text": "(1) No enactment imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire 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.\n(2) In paragraph (1) the reference to ambulance purposes includes a reference to the purposes of a mobile coronary care unit.\n(3) Nothing in this Article shall affect any civil claim for injury or damage to person or property.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/276/article/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:28.359655+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."
}