The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1996 No. 1320 — creates 20 criminal offences.

20offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 15 May 1996
In force from: Not determined
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Road traffic and vehicles
Made under: Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order makes provision with respect to the prosecution and punishment (including the punishment without conviction) of road traffic offences in Northern Ireland. Part II deals with various matters concerning the trial of road traffic offences and Part III makes provision with respect to the penalties that may be incurred on conviction of such offences. The mode of prosecuting such offences and the manner in which they may be punished is set out in tabular form in Schedule 1. Penalties on conviction include a fine and, in some cases, imprisonment. In addition a court may (and in certain instances must) on convicting a person of some offences order that he be disqualified for driving or that his licence be endorsed. Penalty points may be attributed where a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory endorsement of his driving licence. The penalty points are to be taken into account if he is convicted of a further offence. Under Part IV persons alleged to have committed certain road traffic offences may discharge liability to conviction by payment of a fixed penalty.

Offences created by this instrument

A Paragraph (4) does not apply where a person required on any occasion under the preceding provisions of this Article… SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Alternative verdicts article 26 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Alternative verdicts article 26(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Information as to date of birth and sex article 27(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Information as to date of birth and sex article 27(5) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Interim disqualification article 28(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Production of licence article 29(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Production of licence article 29(2)(a) · Status not determined · Strict liability
For the purposes of this Order, an offence involves obligatory endorsement if it is an offence under a provision of… article 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
d Article 18(7) (failing to provide a specimen), where that is an offence involving obligatory disqualification article 35(3)(d) · Status not determined · Strict liability
For the purposes of this Order, an offence involves obligatory disqualification if it is an offence under a provision… article 4(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
For the purposes of this Order, an offence involves discretionary disqualification if it is an offence under a… article 4(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Subject to paragraph (3), for the purposes of this Part a “fixed penalty offence” is an offence specified in an order… article 57(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
The Department may by order specify as a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of this Part, any offence committed in… article 57(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Fixing notices to vehicles article 67(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
False statements in response to notices to owner article 72 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Issue of conditional offer article 80(5)(a) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Issue of conditional offer article 80(5)(a)(ii) · Status not determined · Strict liability
The Secretary of State may by order specify for the purposes of this Article any summary offence— a which is mentioned… article 9(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
b which is punishable with imprisonment or involves obligatory or discretionary disqualification from driving article 9(4)(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 April 1996
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill Lords · Lords Chamber · 22 October 2014
112: Before Schedule 5, insert the following new Schedule— ScheduleMutual recognition of driving disqualification in UK and Republic of IrelandPart 1Further provisionCrime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (c. 32)1 Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (EU Convention on driving disqualifications) is amended as follows. 2 (1) Section 54 (road traffic offences in UK: application of section 55) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (2)— (a) in paragraph (a), after “Schedule 3” insert “or Part 1 of Schedule 3A”, and(b) in paragraph (b), for “that Schedule”…
Immigration Bill Lords · Lords Chamber · 20 January 2016
119: Schedule 2, page 74, line 4, at end insert— “Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1320 (NI 10))(1) Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1320 (NI 10)) is amended as follows. (2) After the entry relating to section 1(3) of the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 insert— “Section 2A(8) Failing to return an operator’s licence Summarily Level 3 on the standard scale”. (3) After the entry relating to section 22(6) of the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 insert— “Section 23A(8) Failing to return an operator’s licence…
Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill [Lords] Commons · Commons Chamber · 26 June 2018 · Tom Brake
First, on new clause 2, I am surprised that the Government do not believe that an understanding of the impact of Brexit on the haulage industry would be helpful to them. I would have thought that it would be. A number of issues have been raised this evening by the hon. Members for York Central (Rachael Maskell) and for Bristol South (Karin Smyth), whose campaigning on this issue has come across. I am sure that the Minister can and will want to address that. He does not necessarily have to do that through a Bill, as there are many other ways of doing so. On new clause 1, I heard some…
Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill [HL] Lords · Lords Chamber · 4 July 2018 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Sugg) (Con)
My Lords, on Amendment 1, alongside the Bill, we are developing regulations relating to the issue of permits for hauliers, which will be laid before Parliament later in the year. These regulations will apply to all existing permit schemes as well as those we may need as part of our future relationship with the EU. Amendment 1 would enable the regulations to specify that the Secretary of State would be able to reserve a limited number of permits. In the unlikely scenario that the UK has a limited number of permits to allocate to hauliers, it is sensible for the Secretary of State to retain a…

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