Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 34

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

5th February 2004

Coming into operation

15th March 2004

The Department for Regional Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 20(3) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993(2), and now exercisable by it(3), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 15th March 2004.

Amendment

2. Regulation 9A (restriction on the use of hard shoulder) of the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(4) shall be amended by the insertion immediately after “9.30 a.m.” of “and 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 5th February 2004.

L.S.

J. Carlisle

A senior officer of the

Department for Regional Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 by permitting the area of the citybound hard shoulder of the Motorway M1 specified in the Schedule to be used as a bus lane during the hours 3.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Monday to Friday (regulation 2).

(1)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

(2)

S.I. 1993/3160 (N.I. 15)

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 6(d) and Schedule 4 Part IV

(4)

S.R. 1984 No. 160; relevant amendment is S.R. 1999 No. 297