{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-17A.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/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Illuminable signs on buses carrying children",
  "text": "(1) From 1st September 2014, a person shall not use or cause or permit to be used on a road a bus first used before 1st June 2011, which is being used to provide a school service when it is carrying a child to or from his school unless—\n(a) an illuminable sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus; and\n(b) an illuminable sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus,\nwhich both comply with the requirements of Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 22A and are fitted in accordance with the specifications in Schedule 22D.\n(2) From 1st September 2014, a person shall not use or cause or permit to be used on a road a bus first used on or after 1st June 2011, which is being used to provide a school service when it is carrying a child to or from his school unless—\n(a) an illuminable sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus; and\n(b) an illuminable sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus,\nwhich both comply with the requirements of Part 2 of Schedule 22A and are fitted in accordance with the specifications in Schedule 22D.\n(3) It shall not be a contravention of regulation 17(1) for a person to cause or permit to be used on a road a bus used to provide a school service where the illuminable signs specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) are fitted to a bus prior to 1st September 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17A(1) substituted (24.3.2011) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/94), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17A(2) substituted (24.3.2011) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/94), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/169/regulation/17A",
    "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."
}