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Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) (Extension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

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Draft 2000, ISBN 0337938024 · Made 26 October 2000

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Order laid before the Assembly under Article 39(9) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, for affirmation

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Made 26th October 2000

Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly 2000

Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(2)

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 39(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f1, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Extension of experimental period
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) (Extension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.

(2)

This Order shall come into operation on the day after it is affirmed by resolution of the Assembly.

2Extension of experimental period

The end of 2005 is hereby specified in place of the end of 2000 for the purposes of Article 39(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (experimental period for the application of Article 36 of that Order).

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 26th October 2000.

L.S.

Sam Foster

Minister of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Article 39(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 provides that no order shall be made under Article 36 of that Order (which provides that courts acting for designated areas have the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced if by a date specified in the order, the offender satisfactorily completes a course approved by the Department) after the end of 2000 or such later date as may be specified. This Order specifies the end of 2005 in place of the end of 2000.