Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
Made
29th March 2000
Coming into operation
10th May 2000
The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 9(4)(b) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 10th May 2000.
2. For regulation 51(8B)(b) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(2) (circumstances in which a person suffering from diabetes requiring insulin may hold a licence) there shall be substituted—
“(b)he has not, during the period of twelve months ending on the date of the application, required the assistance of another person to treat an episode of hypoglycaemia suffered whilst he was driving;”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 29th March 2000.
L.S.
J. Ritchie
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No. 542) by altering the conditions under which a person suffering from insulin-treated diabetes may be granted a licence to drive vehicles in sub-categories C1 and C1 + E (8.25 tonnes).
S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”; Article 9 was substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3), Schedule 1 and amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1, paragraph 3
S.R. 1996 No. 542; paragraph (8B) was inserted by S.R. 1998 No. 415, regulation 2