Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
Made
24th June 2004
Coming into operation
28th June 2004
The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 67(1)(g) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 28th June 2004.
2. In regulation 11(b) of the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(2) (time of application for first tests or periodical tests) for “three months” there shall be substituted “six months”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 24th June 2004.
L.S.
Stanley Duncan
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Goods Vehicle (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 by increasing the period, within which a person may make an application for a first test or periodical test before the test is due, from 3 months to 6 months, (regulation 2).
S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department” and “prescribed”