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These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Access to Driver Licensing Records) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2022.
2 
In these Regulations “the 1981 Order” means Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
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(1) The Department for Infrastructure may make information held by it for the purposes of Part 2 of the 1981 Order available to persons employed by the authorities of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom with responsibility under the law of that country or territory for the regulation of drivers or vehicles, provided that country or territory has entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom for the sharing of such information or has been designated for the purpose of licence exchange under Article 19D(2) of the 1981 Order.
(2) The purpose for which persons specified in paragraph (1) may be given access to information made available to them under that paragraph is the discharge of responsibilities for the regulation of drivers or vehicles.
(3) The purposes for which persons may be given access to information under the Motor Vehicles (Access to Driver Licensing Records) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 do not apply to persons specified in paragraph (1).
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 1st November 2022
Chris Hughes
A senior officer of the Department for Infrastructure
