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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 434

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

6th October 2003

Coming into operation

31st December 2003

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 55(1), (2)(f) and (6) 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 Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 31st December 2003.

Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

2.  Regulation 64 (drawing of trailers) of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(2) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 6th October 2003.

L.S.

Wesley Shannon

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(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 revoke regulation 64 which relates to the drawing of trailers.

(1)

S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

(2)

S.R. 1995 No. 447; regulation 64 was substituted by S.R. 1997 No. 308, regulation 2(8)