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# EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION 

# 2021 No. 552 

# HIGHWAYS 

# TUNNELS 

The Road Tunnel Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2021 

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The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018( a ). 

The requirements of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to that Act (relating to the appropriate Parliamentary procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied. 

## Citation and commencement 

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Tunnel Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into force on the 22nd day after the day on which they are laid. 

## Amendment of the Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007 

2.  The Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007( b ) are amended as follows. 

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation etc.), in paragraph (2), after “as set out in the Road Tunnel Directive” insert “and modified by regulation 2A”. 

4.  In regulation 2 (interpretation etc.), in paragraph (3)— 

(a) after the definition of “modification” insert— ““national authority” means in relation to— 

(i) England, the Secretary of State; 

(ii) Wales, the Welsh Ministers; 

(iii) Scotland, the Scottish Ministers; 

