[Taxi regulation ordersN.I.
27A—(1) The Department may by order (a “taxi regulation order”) make provision for all or any of the following purposes—
(a)for preventing taxis from standing or plying for hire or reward on, or preventing taxis from using except in accordance with the order, specified roads or lengths of roads;
(b)for providing which length of roads may be used as stands for taxis;
(c)for regulating the number of taxis which may stand at each stand and fixing the charges to be made and the time during which taxis may remain there;
(d)for regulating the times and intervals at, and the order in which, taxis may enter or leave such stands;
(e)for reserving particular stands for the use of taxis or of taxis plying on particular routes and excluding from those stands all other vehicles and generally regulating access to and the use of those stands.
(2) Any person who contravenes a taxi regulation order is guilty of an offence
(3) Schedule 4A (which makes further provision in relation to taxi regulation orders) shall have effect.
(4) In this Article (and in Schedule 4A) “taxi” means a taxi within the meaning of the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.]