Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 372

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

11th October 2001

Coming into operation

1st December 2001

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Articles 55(1) and (2) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2001.

Amendment of Regulation 13

2.  In regulation 13 of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(2), after paragraph 2(s), there shall be inserted—

“(sa) reflected blue, yellow and white light from a retro reflective plate displaying a distinguishing sign in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No. 2411/98(3);”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 11th October 2001.

L.S.

Sam Foster

Minister of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 by permitting, on the rear of the vehicle, a plate displaying the international distinguishing sign of the United Kingdom in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No. 2411/98 (notwithstanding that it comprises retro reflective material which is not red).

(1)

S.I. 1995 No. 2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

(2)

S.R. 2000 No. 169

(3)

Council Regulation of 3 November 1998 on the recognition in intra-Community traffic of the distinguishing sign of the Member State in which motor vehicles and their trailers are registered; (O.J. No. L299, 10.11.98, p. 1)