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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-offences-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/287",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-offences-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2011",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "text": "Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (fixed penalty offences) is amended as follows—\n(a) before item 1 (offences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) insert\n“\nOffences under the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967\nA1\nArticle 4(4)\nUsing motor vehicle on road except under Road Service’ licence.\nA2\nArticle 17(3)\nUsing goods vehicle on road for carriage of goods except under vehicle licence.\n”;\n(b) after item 4 (offences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) insert—\n“\n4A\nArticle 56(3)\nContravention of any requirement of domestic drivers’ hours code.\n”;\n(c) for items item 8 and 9 (offences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) substitute—\n“\n8\nArticle 81\nContravention of requirement of applicable Community rules as to books, records or documents.\nContravention of any requirement of applicable Community rules as to periods of driving, etc.\nAny person who makes or causes to be made any entry in a book, record or document kept for the purposes of applicable Community rules which he knows to be false or, with intent to deceive, alters or causes to be altered any such entry.\n9\nArticle 86\nFailure to comply with prohibition or direction in relation to driving vehicle.\nDriving, etc., foreign goods vehicle or foreign public service vehicle in contravention of prohibition etc.\n”;\n(d) for item 16 (offences under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994) substitute—\n“\n16\nSection 34\nMisuse of trade licences.\nUsing trade licence for unauthorised purposes or in unauthorised circumstances, etc.\n”;\n(e) after item 39 (offences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) insert—\n“\n39A\nArticle 80(1)\nDriving, etc., vehicle in contravention of prohibition on driving it as being unfit for service or overloaded, or failing to comply with direction to remove a vehicle found overloaded.\nOffences under the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996\n39B\nArticle 91E\nDriving, etc., vehicle in contravention of prohibition on driving, or failing to comply with direction to remove vehicle on failure to make a financial penalty deposit payment.\n”;\n(f) after item 51 (offences against regulations made under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) insert—\n“\nOffences under the European Communities (International Passenger Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987\n52\nRegulation 19(1)\nUsing vehicle for Community regulated carriage of passengers by road otherwise than in accordance with authorisation or certificate, etc.\n53\nRegulation 19(2)\nUsing vehicle for ASOR regulated or Community regulated carriage of passengers by road without having correctly completed passenger waybill or without carrying top copy of waybill on vehicle throughout journey.\nOffences under the Goods Vehicles (Community Authorisations) Regulations 1992\n54\nRegulation 3\nUsing goods vehicle without Community authorisation\n55\nRegulation 7\nUsing vehicle under Community authorisation in contravention of conditions governing authorisation.\nOffences under the Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996\n56\nRegulation 3\nUsing vehicle in contravention of requirements relating to installation, use or repair of recording equipment in accordance with Community Recording Equipment Regulation\n57\nRegulations 6A and 7(3)\nFailing to comply with requirements relating to inspection of records or obstructing an constable or vehicle examiner , but only insofar as the offence relates to—\n(i) failing to comply with any requirement under regulation 6A; or\n(ii) obstructing an officer in exercise of powers under regulation 7.\n58\nRegulations 7D and 7F\nFailing to comply with requirements relating to inspection of recording equipment or records (whether electronic or hard copy) made by or stored on recording equipment except where that offence is committed\nby—\n(i) failing to sign a hard copy of downloaded data when required to do so under regulation 7D); or\n(ii) obstructing an officer in exercise of powers under regulation 7F.\nOffences under the Road Service Licensing (Community Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002\n59\nRegulation 2\nUsing vehicle on road without Community licence.\n60\nRegulation 6\nUsing vehicle under Community licence in contravention of conditions governing use of licence.\nOffences under the Road Transport (Passenger Vehicles Cabotage) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005\n61\nRegulation 2\nUsing vehicle on road for UK cabotage operations without Community licence.\n62\nRegulation 3\nUsing vehicle on road for UK cabotage operations without control document.\n63\nRegulation 6(1)\nDriver failing to produce Community licence on request when vehicle required to have licence on board.\n64\nRegulation 6(3)\nDriver failing to produce control document on request when vehicle required to have control document on board.\nOffences under the Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007\n65\nRegulation 11(7)\nDriver of relevant vehicle failing to produce on request evidence or document required to be carried under regulation 11(1), (3) or (5).\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 369; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2007 No. 318"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1967 C.37"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "As amended by SRO (NI) 1972/359 and S.I. 1984/703 (NI 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 91E is inserted by Article 12 of S.I. 2007 No. 916"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 383"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1992 No. 3077"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 145"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 116"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "S.R. 2005 No. 212"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 2007 No. 605"
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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