{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-1994/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2280",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 1st September 1994\nLaid before Parliament 9th September 1994\nComing into force\nFor all purposes other than those of regulation 6 1st October 1994\nFor the purposes of regulation 6 1st April 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Transport,—\n(a) in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1), (2) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”), as read with section 43 of that Act, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the 1988 Act; and\n(b) being a Minister designated for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the construction and equipment of vehicles and of components of vehicles, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section;\nand in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52; section 41 was amended by paragraph 50 of Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and by Schedule 8 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/735 as amended by S.I. 1992/1217."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972.68. The definition of “the Treaties” in section 1 of the Act was amended by section 1 of both the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993 (c. 32) and the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)."
    }
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  "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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