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The Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2023-04-20

Last updated 2023-05-15

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 20th April 2023

Coming into operation: 15th May 2023

In accordance with Article 91(1) of that Order the Department has consulted with such representative organisations as it thinks fit.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on 15th May 2023.

Amendment of the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order

2

In Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997[^f00004] (fixed penalty offences), after the heading “Offences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995” and before item 20 insert—

19A	Article 12	Driving mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 20th April 2023

Chris Hughes — A senior officer of the — Department for Infrastructure

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 to specify an additional offence, relating to the driving of a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, to be a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Safe and Accessible Travel Division, Department for Infrastructure, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Town Parks, Belfast BT2 8GB or online alongside this Statutory Rule at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment is dissolved

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)

[^f00003]: See Article 8(1)(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 5 to, the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)

[^f00004]: S.R. 1997 No. 369; as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 354, S.R. 2007 No. 318, S.R. 2011 No. 287, S.R. 2011 No. 379, S.R. 2013 No. 5, S.R. 2013 No. 196, S.R. 2014 No. 231, S.R. 2015 No. 349, S.R. 2016 No. 181, S.R. 2016 No. 343 and S.R. 2019 No. 12

Editorial notes

[^key-21ad830fe4dbb0dfc3b8290b0a7e5fb8]: Art. 1 in operation at 15.5.2023, see art. 1

[^key-bc7bcc8bd50e5d2d62f2dfbf8126fdb5]: Art. 2 in operation at 15.5.2023, see art. 1

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