
2023 No. 191
Road Traffic And Vehicles
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023
Made 23rd November 2023
Coming into operation 8th January 2024
The Department for Infrastructure makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 55(1) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and now vested in it.
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on 8th January 2024.
Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations
2 
In regulation 125A of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (mobile telephones)—
(a) in paragraphs (1) to (3) for “paragraph (5)” substitute “paragraphs (5) and (5A)”; and
(b) after paragraph (5) insert—“
(5A) A person does not contravene a provision of this regulation if, at the time of the alleged contravention—
(a) he is using the telephone or other device only to perform a remote controlled parking function of the motor vehicle; and
(b) that telephone or other device only enables the motor vehicle to move where the following conditions are satisfied—
(i) there is continuous activation of the remote control application of the telephone or device by the driver;
(ii) the signal between the motor vehicle and the telephone or the motor vehicle and the device, as the case may be, is maintained; and
(iii) the distance between the motor vehicle and the telephone or the motor vehicle and the device, as the case may be, is not more than 6 metres.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 23rd November 2023
Chris Hughes
A senior officer of the
Department for Infrastructure
