Nighttime parades are once again possible in Nova Scotia's second-largest municipality, but the policy reversal likely won't take effect until next year.

Cape Breton Regional Municipality's council voted to ban nighttime parades in 2019 after a couple of accidents in which children were hurt, and in the wake of the death of a child during a Santa Claus parade in Yarmouth the previous year.

On Tuesday, council voted 9-4 to reverse the ban. Those in favour said the police chief, as head of the traf…