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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1998/schedule",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/419",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "schedule",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "“Form 2B\nROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1996\n(Articles 11, 28(5), 29, 49)\nROAD TRAFFIC (NEW DRIVERS) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998\n(Shedule 1, paragraph 3(2), (3) and (5))\nMAGISTRATES' COURTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1981\n(Rule 8(7))\nEndorsement on Summons of requirement to produce licence and its counterpart and/or test certificate\nTAKE NOTICE that an offence in respect of which you are charged involves obligatory or discretionary disqualification.\nBy Article 11 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 you are therefore required either to–\n(a) deliver your licence and its counterpart to the court; or\n(b) bring the licence and its counterpart to court with you at the hearing.\nIf you are convicted of the offence and the court proposes to make an order disqualifying you or endorsing your licence and you fail to produce your licence and its counterpart to the court, you will be guilty of an offence AND your licence will be suspended automatically until it, and its counterpart, are produced to the court.\nIf the offence with which you are charged involves obligatory endorsement and is alleged to have been committed during your probationary period and you hold a test certificate, you are also required by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 either to—\n(a) deliver your test certificate to the court; or\n(b) bring the test certificate to court with you at the hearing.\nIf you are convicted of the offence and fail to produce your test certificate to the court, you will be guilty of an offence.\nNote:\n1 If you have applied for a new licence but have not yet received it, you must be able to satisfy the court of the truth of this.\n2 If you have surrendered your licence and its counterpart on receiving a fixed penalty notice, the receipt issued must be delivered or produced to the court.\n3 “Probationary period” means a period of 2 years beginning on the date of the first occasion on which you pass a test of competence to drive (taken on or after 14th December 1998.)”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/419/schedule",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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