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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Road Traffic And Vehicles
Made
21st February 2019
Coming into operation
18th March 2019
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on 18th March 2019.
2.-(1) The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(4) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after "the 1995 Order" insert-
""the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act" means the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018(5);".
(3) In regulation 13(2)(6) (colour of light shown by lamps and reflectors) after sub-paragraph (sa) insert-
"(sb)reflected light from a registration plate fixed to the rear of a trailer displaying a registration mark assigned to that trailer in accordance with regulations made under section 15 of the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act;".
(4) After paragraph 12 of Schedule 15 (requirements relating to obligatory rear registration plate lamps) add-
"13. In this Schedule a reference to a rear registration plate does not include a registration plate fixed to the rear of a trailer displaying a registration mark assigned to that trailer in accordance with regulations made under section 15 of the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act.".
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 21st February 2019
Tom Reid
A senior officer of the
Department for Infrastructure
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 to remove the requirement to illuminate the trailer registration plate.
The amendment is required as a consequence of the Trailer Registration Scheme which was introduced by the Trailer Registration Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1203).
An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Transport Strategy Division, Department for Infrastructure, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Town Parks, Belfast BT2 8GB or online alongside this Statutory Rule at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr.
Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment was dissolved
See Article 8(1)(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 5 to, the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)
Sub-paragraph (sa) was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2001 No. 372
