{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-amendment-2016-act-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-amendment-2016-act-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/240",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (Amendment) (2016 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-amendment-2016-act-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis order brings into operation on the 9th November 2020 the provisions of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 specified in the Schedule.\nSection 6 amends Article 19 (choice of specimens of breath) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 by removing the option (commonly called ‘the statutory option’) whereby a driver had a right to opt for a blood or urine specimen to replace a breath specimen indicating the proportion of alcohol in their breath if their breath test was marginally over the prescribed limit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995 No. 2994 (N.I. 18)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/240/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:42:09.583503+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}