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The Motor Vehicles (Access to Driver Licensing Records) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

S.R. 2011/432 · Made 19 December 2011

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Road Traffic And Vehicles

Made 19th December 2011

Coming into operation 6th February 2012

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 19I(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”; Article 19I was inserted by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10), Article 36

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Purposes for which access may be given
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Access to Driver Licensing Records) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and shall come into operation on 6th February 2012.

(2)

In these Regulations “the 1981 Order” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

2Purposes for which access may be given

The purposes for which persons specified in Article 19I(1) of the 1981 Order may be given access to information made available to them under that paragraph are—

(a)

the prevention, investigation or prosecution of a contravention of any provision of the following enactments—

(i)

the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;

(ii)

the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995f1;

(iii)

the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007f2;

(iv)

the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f3;

(v)

the Road Traffic Act 1988f4;

(vi)

the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988f5; and

(vii)

the Road Safety Act 2006f6; and

(b)

ascertaining whether a person has had an order made in relation to him under—

(c)

Article 37A(1) or (5) (disqualification from driving: further provision) of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991f7; or

(i)

Article 91(1) (driving disqualification for any offence) of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008f8.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 19th December 2011

L.S.

Deirdre Kenny

A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations determine the purposes for which information held by the Department for the purposes of Part II of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and made available to the persons specified in article 19I of that Order may be used.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as there is no impact on the costs to business or the voluntary sector. An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Road Safety and Vehicle Regulation Division, Department of the Environment, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB or viewed online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr