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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-2007-order-commencement-no-4-and-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (2007 Order) (Commencement No. 4 and Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-2007-order-commencement-no-4-and-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into operation on 9th June 2008 Article 21 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) 2007.\nArticle 21 inserts new Articles 180B and 180C into the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.\nArticle 180B gives the police the power to seize motor vehicles that are being driven without insurance and includes the power to enter certain premises and to use reasonable force.\nArticle 180C provides the Secretary of State with the regulation making power to provide for the removal and retention of vehicles that have been seized under Article 180B and for the release or disposal of those vehicles.\nArticle 3 of this Order corrects drafting errors in Article 21 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/244/note",
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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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