{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/169",
  "legislation_title": "Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Signs on buses carrying children",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations 17A(3), 17B(2) and 17C(2) a person shall not use or cause or permit to be used on a road a bus when it is carrying a child to or from his school unless—\n(a) a standard sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus; and\n(b) a standard sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—\n(a) where a bus is on a bus service of a description specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 18 (bus services specified for the purposes of regulation 57(5)) to the Construction and Use Regulations; or\n(b) where a bus is the property of an Education and Library Board and is painted in the distinctive livery of that Board.\n(3) A standard sign shall be removed while any bus to which it has been fitted is being used for purposes other than carrying a child to or from his school.\n(4) This regulation shall cease to have effect on 31st August 2014.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 17-17D substituted for reg. 17 (24.3.2011) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/49), regs. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/169/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:36.082717+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."
}