{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) after the definition of “cc” insert—\n““child” means a child under the age of 16 years;”;\n(b) after the definition of “hours of darkness” insert—\n““illuminable sign” means a sign which is of a type shown in Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 22A and complies with the requirements of that Schedule;”;\n(c) omit the definition of “prescribed sign”;\n(d) after the definition of “road clearance vehicle” insert—\n““roof bar” means an appliance fitted to the roof of a vehicle which is of a type described in Schedule 22C and complies with the requirements of that Schedule;”;\n(e) after the definition of “running lamp” insert—\n““school” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;\n“school service” means a bus service—\n(i) which operates during term time only in accordance with a timetable and is normally available to members of the general public and is regularly used by such members but the main purpose of that service is to carry a child to or from his school;\n(ii) provided or secured by an Education and Library Board pursuant to arrangements made under Article 52 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; and\n(iii) which is provided by a bus which is the property of an Education and Library Board and is painted in the distinctive livery of that Board;”;\n(f) after the definition of “side retro reflector” insert—\n““small bus” means a motor vehicle which is constructed or adapted to carry more than eight but not more than sixteen seated passengers in addition to the driver;”;\n(g) after the definition of “special warning lamp” insert—\n““standard sign” means a sign which is of a type shown in Schedule 22 and complies with the requirements of that Schedule;”;\n(h) after the definition of “warning beacon” insert—\n““warning light” means a lamp which is of a type described in Schedule 22B and complies with the requirements of that Schedule;”.\n(3) After paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) In these Regulations a reference to a bus carrying a child to or from his school is a reference to a bus carrying a child—\n(i) to, or to a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time before he has attended the school on that day; or\n(ii) from, or from a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time after he has finished attending the school on that day.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 52 was substituted by S.I. 1997 No. 866 (N.I. 5); Article 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/49/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:13.830964+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."
}