The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made: 29th March 2019

Coming into operation-: 30th March 2019

The Department for Infrastructure[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14(1), (7) and (10) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on 30th March 2019.

Amendments

2

• (1) The Disabled Persons (Badge for Motor Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993[^f00004] is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

• (2) For Regulation 3 (form of badge) substitute the following—

(3) (1) Paragraph (2) applies in respect of a badge with a date of issue on or after 30th March 2019. (2) A disabled person’s badge is in the prescribed form if— (a) the front and reverse of the badge are in the form shown in— (i) diagram 1 in Part I of the Schedule in the case of an individual’s badge (with the omission of the word “sample” where it appears); or (ii) diagram 2 in Part I of the Schedule in the case of an organisational badge (with the omission of the word “sample” where it appears); and (b) The badge mentioned in paragraph (2) complies with the specifications set out in Part II of the Schedule.

• (3) For the Schedule to those Regulations substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Transitional provisions

3

Nothing in regulation 2 shall affect the validity of a badge which—

• (a) was issued before the coming into operation of these Regulations; and

• (b) was in a form which complied with the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 at the time of its issue.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 29th March 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 further amend the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 by changing the form of the badge with effect from 30th March 2019.

Footnotes

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

[^f00002]: 1978 c. 53 as amended by S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1) Sch. 7, para. 21; S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2) Article 55, Sch. 8, para. 3 and Sch. 9 and S.I. 2005/1964 (N.I. 14) Article 32

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

[^f00004]: S.R. 1993 No. 202: relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2000 No. 59, S.R. 2008 No. 501, S.R. 2016 No. 30 and S.R. 2016 No. 173

[^f00005]: The British Standards Institution publication of the Standard has the ISBN 9780580687389