# Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to Amend the law relating to the prescribed limit of alcohol for drink-driving offences; to make further provision for breath testing; to make provision relating to certain offences being specified as fixed penalty offences; to amend the law relating to disqualification on conviction of certain offences; to amend the law, as respects certain vehicles, relating to the requirements to be satisfied to take a test of competence to drive and the restrictions to which newly qualified drivers are subject for a period after passing such a test; to make provision relating to completion of an approved course as an alternative to licence revocation during a new driver's probationary period and extending requirements to wear protective headgear; and for connected purposes.
[23rd March 2016]
BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/11/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2016/introduction
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