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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2695",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-no-4-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Construction and Use Regulations 1986 by inserting a new regulation 110.\nRegulations 110(1) and (2) prohibit a person from driving, or causing or permitting a person to drive, a motor vehicle on a road if the driver is using a hand-held mobile telephone or similar device. Regulation 110(3) prohibits a person from using a mobile telephone or similar device while supervising a holder of a provisional licence at a time when the provisional licence holder is driving a motor vehicle on a road. It is an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to contravene these regulations. Regulation 110(4) provides a definition of devices that are considered similar to hand-held mobile telephones for the purpose of these regulations. This definition excludes two-way radios.\nRegulation 110(5) provides that in specific circumstances a person will not breach the regulation. Where a person makes a call to the emergency services on 999 or 112 in response to a genuine emergency where it is unsafe or impracticable for him (or the provisional licence holder) to cease driving while the call is being made, the regulation is not breached.\nA full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from Road Safety Division, Zone 2/11, Department for Transport, Great Minister House, 76 Marsham Street SW1P 4DR, telephone 020 7944 2046, facsimile 020 7944 2029, email road.safety@dft.gsi.gov.uk. A copy has been placed in the library of both Houses of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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