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Legislation has now been affirmed, and will take effect from tomorrow... :)

Just an update on the legislation. It has now been approved by the Examiner of Statutory Rules. Furthermore, at the meeting of the Infrastructure committee on 28th April, it was proposed by Roy Briggs MLA that they write to the business committee to prioritise this legislation, due to the fact...

The law has been drafted, and is currently waiting on approval from the examiner of Statutory rules before coming back to the assembly for initial debate. Given the current situation, it may not be a priority... You can view the actual legislation here...

I think the difference comes down to the fact this has to be primary legislation, since NI has never had an EAPC definition before. So it's not an amendment, which would have only needed a Statutory Regulation, which would have been sorted more or less immediately. Primary legislation takes...

Ted, Basically, from my understanding, what has to happen, is the minister raises a proposal, the committee has to approve, amend or reject it (these steps are now done). The minister then submits it as a bill to the speaker (at this stage we should see exactly what is in it). If the speaker...

Just a little update, the new legislation has been discussed in the DfI Committee, so we now know what it will be called:- SL1 - "The Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020" The committee unanimously agreed to accept the proposal, and it...

I see the DFI minister has put out a press release confirming that she will bring forward legislation as soon as possible to "simplify regulations around registration, licencing & insurance" for electric bikes. Doesn't sound as if she is going to do away with such requirements completely! The...

Maybe it's best she takes her time and uses baby steps, or we could end up with something like the MOT test centre farce (also her remit): https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/ongoing-issues-mot-centres If she could get the Pedelecs sorted, at least we would have some form of transport, the...

I note the minister has already answered a similar question from another MLA: AQW 309/17-22 "To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what is being done to bring electrically assisted pedal cycle licensing requirements into line with those in other jurisdictions." ANSWER "I am aware of the...

Maybe the minister has passed the new legislation - she may have defined a pedelec as her electric Nissan Leaf, so she can legally use the bus lanes! I see the minister has until 3rd February to respond to Chris's question - let's see what she comes up with...

Glad to hear they might at least be starting the process, however, I won't get too excited just yet! I still think it could have been done even when the assembly wasn't sitting, like they were able to do with the MOT legislation. It certainly would have been easier then than it will be now...

You are correct, the class is defined in 168/2013, and this had been adopted into Northern Ireland law, however only insofar as it defines an EAPC for type approval purposes. In other words it is legal to sell such vehicles in Northern Ireland, and that they do not require an MOT. The...

It's my understanding that the Northern Ireland legislation exempting pedelecs is already in place, in fact has been since 1995. The issue is that the legislation refers to "an electrically assisted pedal cycle of such a class as may be so prescribed", however the class was never defined. This...

The thing that I could never understand was why they always maintained the law couldn't be changed as there was no minister to sign it off. This could have been a reasonable excuse, had it not been for the fact that they were able to change the law to exempt pedelecs from requiring an MOT in...

Good luck getting a CBT for £130 in Northern Ireland - usually £170-£180 or higher, depending on how long it takes. The NI CBT is more complicated than the GB one (new EU rules) and needs a minimum of 4 hours on the road training. On the plus side, you won't need the £23 theory test to ride on...