Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2019 No. 6
Road Traffic And Vehicles
Canals And Inland Waterways
The Road Traffic and Vehicles and Waterways (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019
Made
21st January 2019
Coming into operation
18th February 2019
The Department for Infrastructure(1) is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to—
(a)compulsory insurance(3);
(b)measures relating to the carriage of passengers and goods by road(4);
(c)the regulation and supervision of qualifications of persons engaged in road transport(5);
(d)the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, the regulation and supervision of the working conditions of persons engaged in road transport, and the testing of roadworthiness of motor vehicles and their trailers(6);
(e)measures relating to the organisation of working time(7);
(f)transport of dangerous goods(8);
(g)the environment(9).
The Department for Infrastructure makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, The Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment is dissolved.
1972 c.68; section 2(2) is amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)