# Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, Article 29: Penalty for abandoning motor vehicles


(1) Any person who, without lawful authority, abandons on any land in the open air, or on any other land forming part of a road,—
(a) a motor vehicle, or
(b) any thing which formed part of a motor vehicle and was removed from it in the course of dismantling the vehicle on the land,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to such a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person who leaves any motor vehicle or thing which formed part of a motor vehicle on any land in such circumstances or for such a period that he may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there shall be deemed to have abandoned it there or, as the case may be, to have brought it to the land for that purpose unless the contrary is shown.
(3) In this Article and Article 30, “road” includes any street, carriageway, highway or roadway to which the public has access.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1049/article/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-29
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