The Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made: 2nd March 2006

Coming into operation: 13th April 2006

The Department for Regional Development[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 20(3) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003]:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as The Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 13th April 2006.

Amendments

2

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

• (1) In regulation 9A (a) (restriction on the use of hard shoulder) for “on a weekday” there shall be substituted “from Monday to Saturday inclusive”.

• (2) In Schedule 1 the existing paragraph shall be renumbered as paragraph 1. and at the end of that paragraph as so renumbered there shall be added the following paragraph —

(2) The area of the citybound hard shoulder of the Motorway M1, from a point 480 metres south of the southern parapet wall of the Ballyskeagh Road Bridge to a point 210 metres north of the northern parapet of the Black’s Road Bridge bounded on its western side by the western side of the hard shoulder and on its eastern side by the outer edge of a road marking in the form of — (a) a broken longitudinal white line; or (b) two continuous longitudinal white lines encompassing white chevrons.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 2nd March 2006.

R. Sherman — A senior officer of the — Department for Regional Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations further amend the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 (“the 1984 Regulations”) by —

• (a) increasing the number of days during which buses may use the area of the hard shoulder of the Motorway M1 specified in Schedule 1 to the 1984 Regulations from Monday to Friday to Monday to Saturday; and

• (b) adding a new area of hard shoulder of the Motorway M1 to be used as a bus lane.

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. 336