2004 No. 34
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004
Made 5th February 2004
Coming into operation 15th March 2004

The Department for Regional Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 20(3) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993, and now exercisable by it, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:
S.I.1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)
S.I.1993/3160 (N.I. 15)
S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 6(d) and Schedule 4 Part IV

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 15th March 2004.

2 Amendment
Regulation 9A (restriction on the use of hard shoulder) of the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 shall be amended by the insertion immediately after “9.30 a.m.” of “and 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.”.
S.R. 1984 No. 160; relevant amendment is S.R. 1999 No. 297
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 5th February 2004.
J. Carlisle A senior officer of the Department for Regional Development

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 by permitting the area of the citybound hard shoulder of the Motorway M1 specified in the Schedule to be used as a bus lane during the hours 3.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Monday to Friday (regulation 2).