# Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Regulation 17: Signs on buses carrying children

Extent: N.I.

(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—
(a) a standard sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus; and
(b) a standard sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—
(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
(b) where a bus is the property of an Education and Library Board and is painted in the distinctive livery of that Board.
(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.
(4) This regulation shall cease to have effect on 31st August 2014.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/169/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17
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