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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1084",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1078) (“the 1986 Regulations”) prohibits the use, while driving a motor vehicle, of hand-held mobile telephones or other interactive communication devices.\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations amends regulation 110 of the 1986 Regulations to insert new paragraph (5C), which provides an exemption for persons driving in the course of performing duties for an emergency service while communicating on a secure electronic communications network using a device in press-to-talk mode.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside these Regulations on legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1084/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:11.184225+00:00"
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  "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."
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