Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1997 No. 375
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
The Motor Cars (Silence Zones) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
Made
14th August 1997
Coming into operation
1st October 1997
The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 8(2) and 74(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Cars (Silence Zones) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1997.
Revocation
2. The Regulations set out in the Schedule are hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
L.S.
J. Ritchie
Assistant Secretary
14th August 1997.
Regulation 2
SCHEDULERegulations Revoked
Title
Year and Number
The Motor Cars (Silence Zones) (Bangor and Portrush) Regulations, 1934
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1934 No. 97 (p. 368)
The Motor Cars (Silence Zone) (Holywood) Regulations, 1936
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1936 No. 151 (p. 335)
The Motor Cars (Silence Zone) (Belfast) Regulations, 1938
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1938 No. 57 (p. 232)
The Motor Cars (Silence Zone) (Londonderry) Regulations, 1938
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1938 No. 58 (p. 233)
The Motor Cars (Silence Zone) (Portstewart) Regulations, 1939
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1939 No. 96 (p. 281)
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations revoke five Statutory Rules which prohibited the use of a motor car horn between certain hours in six specified areas of Northern Ireland. The Rules are obsolete as there is a general prohibition, subject to certain exceptions, of the use of an audible warning instrument on a vehicle between 11.30 p.m. and 7.00 a.m. This prohibition is contained in regulation 96 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989.
(1)
S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”
