Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Advance notice to Police

1.  The conditions referred to in regulation 94(4)(ii)(A), (6), (9) and (11)(b)(ii) are—

(a) before using on a road a vehicle to which this Schedule applies, the owner shall give at least two clear working days notice in writing of the intended use to the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the notice shall include the following details—

(i) time, date and route of the proposed journey, and

(ii) in a case to which regulation 6(15) applies, the overall length of the trailer,

(iii) in a case to which regulation 94(3) applies, the overall length and width of the vehicle by which the load is carried and the width of the lateral projection of its load,

(iv) in a case to which regulation 94(6)(a) applies, the overall length and width of each vehicle by which the load is carried, the length of any forward or rearward projection and, where the load rests on more than one vehicle, the distance between the vehicles,

(v) in a case to which regulation 94(6)(b) applies, the overall length of the combination of vehicles and the length of any forward or rearward projection of the load, and

(vi) in a case to which regulation 94(9) and (10) applies, the overall length of the vehicle and the length of any forward or rearward projection of the load or special appliance or apparatus.

The Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary may, at his discretion, accept a shorter period of notice or fewer details.

(b) The vehicle shall be used only in accordance with the details specified in sub-paragraph (a) subject to any variation in the time, date or route which may be directed by—

(i) the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the owner of the vehicle, or

(ii) a constable to the driver in the interests of road safety or in order to avoid undue traffic congestion by halting the vehicle in a place on or adjacent to the road on which the vehicle is travelling.

In this paragraph—

(i) “working day” means a day which is not a Sunday, a bank holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, and

(ii) “bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).

(1)

1971 c. 80