The Motor Cars (Silence Zones) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 14th August 1997

Coming into operation: 1st October 1997

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 8(2) and 74(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997[^f00001] 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 Motor Cars (Silence Zones) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1997.

Revocation

2

The Regulations set out in the Schedule are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — Regulations Revoked

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

J. Ritchie — Assistant Secretary — 14th August 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations revoke five Statutory Rules which prohibited the use of a motor car horn between certain hours in six specified areas of Northern Ireland. The Rules are obsolete as there is a general prohibition, subject to certain exceptions, of the use of an audible warning instrument on a vehicle between 11.30 p.m. and 7.00 a.m. This prohibition is contained in regulation 96 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”