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These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 and shall come into operation on 6th November 2017.
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(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 are amended in accordance with paragraphs  and .
(2) In regulation 42—
(a) in paragraph (1) for “one or more of the types” substitute “the type”;
(b) in paragraph (3) for “21B” substitute “34B”; and
(c) in paragraph (4) after the term “EEA State” in each place that it occurs insert “or the Republic of Turkey”.
(3) For Schedule 4 substitute—“
SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 42(1)

A fire extinguisher which complies in all respects with the specification for portable fire extinguishers issued by the British Standards Institution numbered BS EN 3-7:2004+A1:2007 and which—
(a) has a minimum test fire rating of 8A or 34B;
(b) contains water or foam; and
(c) has a minimum capacity of two litres.
”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 4th July 2017
Elizabeth Loughran
A senior officer of the
Department for Infrastructure
