The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008
The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the 1993 Regulations”) require persons driving or riding in a motor vehicle to wear a seatbelt. This requirement is subject to a number of exceptions, including exceptions for the users of motor vehicles engaged in making local rounds of deliveries or collections of goods or mail and for “qualified drivers” supervising learner drivers performing manoeuvres which include reversing.