The Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made: 13th February 2019

Coming into operation: 11th March 2019

The Department for Infrastructure[^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) 2019 and shall come into operation on 11th March 2019.

2

• (1) The Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008[^f00004] are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

• (2) In regulation 1(2)—

• (a) for the definition of “bus lane” substitute the following—

• “bus lane” means an area of hard shoulder of a length of motorway specified in Schedule 1 or the area of the length of carriageway specified in Schedule 2;

• (b) delete the definition of “weekday”.

• (3) For regulation 9 (use of the hard shoulder as a bus lane) substitute the following—

(9) Save as provided in regulations 6(2) and 14 a person shall not cause or permit any vehicle other than a bus to enter, proceed or wait in a bus lane— (a) specified in Schedule 1 during the hours between 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. on the days Monday to Friday inclusive. (b) specified in Schedule 2 at any time.

• (4) For Schedules 1 and 2 substitute the Schedules set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 13th February 2019

T Reid — A senior officer of the Department for Infrastructure

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend The Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 by substituting new Schedules for Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 and adding lengths of bus lanes on the hard shoulders of the M1 Motorway and the M2 Motorway and a length of the carriageway of the off-slip from the M2 Motorway to Duncrue Street. The Regulations also amend the hours of operation of the bus lanes specified in Schedule 1 so that they now operate during the hours between 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. on the days Monday to Friday inclusive and the bus lane specified in Schedule 2 will operate at any time.

Any person who acts in contravention of the Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale (£2500). Traffic signs indicating the effect of the Regulations will in due course be placed on the roads.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2016 c. 5 (N.I.)

[^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. 2008 No. 135