2006 No. 74
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made 1st March 2006
Coming into operation 13th April 2006

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 55(1), (2) and (6) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995:
S.I.1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 13th April 2006.

2 Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
In regulation 29(2) (length) of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 for “4.73” there shall be substituted “5”.
S.R. 1995 No. 447 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 1st March 2006.
Stanley Duncan A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 so as to increase the maximum length of a taxi, which is licensed for public hire in the City of Belfast, from 4.73 metres to 5 metres.