Motorways Traffic (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 10th August 2004

Coming into operation: 20th September 2004

The Department for Regional Development[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 20(3) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993[^f00002] and now exercisable by it[^f00003] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motorways Traffic (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 20th September 2004.

Amendments

2

The Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984[^f00004] shall be amended as follows –

• (1) For the definition of “bus lane” in regulation 1(2) (interpretation) substitute the following definition –

• “bus lane” means an area of hard shoulder specified in the Schedules;

• (2) For regulation 9A (restriction on the use of hard shoulder) substitute the following regulation –

(9A) Save as provided in regulations 7(2) and 14, a person shall not – (a) during the hours 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on a weekday, cause or permit any vehicle other than a bus to enter, proceed or wait in the bus lane specified in Schedule 1; (b) during the hours 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. on a weekday, cause or permit any vehicle other than a bus to enter, proceed or wait in the bus lane specified in Schedule 2.

• (3) For the Schedule substitute the Schedules set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

3

The Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 10th August 2004.

J. Carlisle — A senior officer of the — Department for Regional Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 by –

• (a) amending the period in the afternoon on Monday to Friday during which buses may use the area of the hard shoulder of the Motorway M1 specified in Schedule 1 from between 3.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. to between 3.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.; and

• (b) permitting the areas of the hard shoulder of the Motorway M2 specified in Schedule 2 to be used as a bus lane during the hours 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. on Monday to Friday.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1993/3160 (N.I. 15)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 6(d) and Schedule 4 Part IV

[^f00004]: S.R. 1984 No. 160; relevant amendments are S.R. 1999 No. 297 and S.R. 2004 No. 34

[^f00005]: S.R. 2004 No. 34