Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made: 27th January 2005

Coming into operation: 22nd April 2005

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 55(1) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995[^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 Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 22nd April 2005.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

2

In regulation 37 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999[^f00002], there shall be inserted after paragraph (11) –

(11A) Paragraphs (10) and (11) have effect in relation to any tint, film or other substance or material applied to a windscreen or window as they have effect in relation to the windscreen or window itself.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 27th January 2005.

Wesley Shannon — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”) in relation to the visual transmission requirements for light through windscreens and windows.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 37 of the 1999 Regulations by the insertion of a new paragraph (11A) which expressly applies the requirements as to the visual transmission of windscreens and windows in paragraph (10), and the exceptions in paragraph (11), to any tint, film, other substance or material applied to a windscreen or window.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

[^f00002]: S.R. 1999 No. 454