Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 1st March 2004

Coming into operation: 31st March 2004

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 6(7) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 31st March 2004.

Amount of fixed penalty

2

For the amount of £25 specified as the amount of the fixed penalty in Article 6(6) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 there shall be substituted the amount of £50.

Revocation

3

The Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 1st March 2004.

Judena Goldring — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Article 6 of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 makes provision for the payment of a fixed penalty to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence of leaving litter under Article 3 or permitting dogs to foul under Article 4 of that Order.

This Order increases the amount of the fixed penalty from £25 to £50.

This Order revokes the Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998, which had increased the fixed penalty from £10 to £25.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1994/1896 (N.I. 10) as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 166

[^f00002]: S.R. 1998 No. 166