2005 No. 22

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

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

Made

Coming into operation

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 19951 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

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) 19992

In regulation 37 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19992, 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.

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

Wesley ShannonA senior officer of theDepartment of the Environment

(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.