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# The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2024 No. 1084
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Made
30th October 2024
Laid before Parliament
4th November 2024
Coming into force
25th November 2024
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
The Secretary of State has consulted with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 25th November 2024.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

## 2 Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 {#regulation-2}

In the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, in regulation 110 (mobile telephones), after paragraph (5B) insert—
(5C) A person does not contravene a provision of this regulation if, at the time of the alleged contravention—
(a) that person is using a mobile telephone or other device which is capable of functioning (whether or not it is also capable of functioning in other ways) so as to transmit a spoken message only while a button on the device is pressed at the same time as the person is speaking the message; and
(b) that person is using the device to transmit a spoken message in the manner described in sub-paragraph (a) or to receive a spoken message—
(i) on an electronic communications network to which access is controlled by the Secretary of State and which that person is authorised to access; and
(ii) in the course of performing duties for the police, fire, ambulance or other emergency service.
.