Point in time view as at 01/01/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Section 28 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
28.—(1) The Department may make regulations prescribing (by reference to shape, construction or any other quality) types of helmet recommended as affording protection to persons on or in motor cycles, or motor cycles of different classes, from injury in the event of accident.
(2) If a person sells, or offers or exposes for sale, a helmet as a helmet for affording such protection and the helmet is neither—
(a)of a type prescribed under this Article, nor
(b)of a type authorised under regulations made under this Article and sold, or offered or exposed for sale, subject to any conditions specified in the authorisation,
subject to paragraph (3), he is guilty of an offence.
(3) A person shall not be convicted of an offence under this Article in respect of the sale, or offering or exposing for sale, of a helmet if he proves that it was sold or, as the case may be, offered or exposed for sale for export from Northern Ireland.
(4) The provisions of Schedule 1 shall have effect in relation to contraventions of this Article.
(5) In this Article and Schedule 1 “helmet” includes any head-dress, and references to selling or sale shall include references to letting on hire and references to offering or exposing for sale shall be construed accordingly.
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