Motor Hackney Carriages (Belfast) (Amendment) By-Laws (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 350

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motor Hackney Carriages (Belfast) (Amendment) By-Laws (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

24th July 2003

Coming into operation

1st October 2003

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 65(1) and (2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following By-Laws:

Citation and commencement

1.  These By-Laws may be cited as the Motor Hackney Carriages (Belfast) (Amendment) By-Laws (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2003.

By-Laws amended

2.  In the Schedule to the By-Laws made in respect of Motor Hackney Carriages standing or plying for hire made by the Council of the County Borough of Belfast on 4th June 1951(2), after the entry for Malone Road there shall be added –

UNIVERSITY STREETSouth Side: from a point approximately 35 metres east of the east kerbline of Botanic Avenue for a distance of 24 metres in an easterly direction. Carriages shall stand in a single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith.4Between the hours of 6.00 p.m. and 8.00 a.m..

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 24th July 2003.

L.S.

Wesley Shannon

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the By-Laws.)

These By-Laws amend the Schedule to the Motor Hackney Carriages (Belfast) By-Laws made by the Council of the County Borough of Belfast on 4th June 1951 by making provision for a new taxi stand at University Street.

(1)

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”

(2)

The relevant amending By-Law is S.R. 1997 No. 365