The Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2019 No. 12

Road Traffic And Vehicles

The Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made

8th February 2019

Coming into operation

11th March 2019

The Department for Infrastructure makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972(1).

The Department is designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, the regulation and supervision of working conditions of persons engaged in road transport and measures relating to the organisation of working time.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department that it is expedient for the reference to Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on tachographs in road transport(3) to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.

(1)

1972 c.68 section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1)(a), and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), Schedule, Part 1. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, section 28 and was amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) and S.I. 2007/1388.

(2)

S.I. 1972/1811, S.I. 1975/1707 and S.I. 1997/1174.

(3)

OJ No. L 60, 28.2.2014, p. 1.