{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-offences-order-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-1", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-offences-order-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-1.json", "legislation": "nisr/1997/369", "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-offences-order-northern-ireland-1997", "path": "schedule/1", "kind": "schedule", "number": "1", "heading": "Fixed Penalty Offences", "text": "Column (1)\nColumn (2)\nColumn (3)\nItem No.\nProvision creating offence\nGeneral nature of offence\nOffences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981\n1.\nArticle 3(1)\nDriving without a licence.\n2.\nArticle 13\nFailure to comply with any conditions prescribed for driving under provisional licence.\n3.\nArticle 15(7)\nDriving licence holder failing, when his licence is revoked, to surrender it and its counterpart or, when particulars cease to be correct, to surrender the licence and counterpart and give particulars.\n4.\nArticles 56 and 63\nDriving a goods vehicle or a public service vehicle in excess of prescribed hours.\n5.\nArticle 60\nPublic service vehicle plying for hire when not licensed under Article 61.\n6.\nArticle 62(2)\nPermitting overcrowding on a public service vehicle.\n7.\nArticle 72(1)\nFailure to comply with conditions of LGV or PCV licence.\n8.\nArticle 81(1)\nDriving a motor vehicle in contravention of applicable Community rules as to periods of driving, etc.\n9.\nArticle 81(2)\nContravention of requirement of applicable Community rules as to books, records or documents.\n10.\nArticle 154(1)\nDriving with uncorrected defective eyesight.\n11.\nArticle 154(2)\nRefusal to submit to test to ascertain whether offence committed under Article 154(1).\n12.\nArticle 174B in relation to Regulation 7(4) of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991\nFailure by a taxi driver to wear badge supplied by the Department.\nOffences under the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993\n13.\nArticle 20(4)\nWrongful use of a special road.\n14.\nArticle 95(1)\nDepositing solid matter on the carriageway of a road.\nOffences under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994\n15.\nSection 33(1)\nUsing or keeping a vehicle on public road without vehicle licence, trade licence or nil licence being exhibited in the prescribed manner.\n16.\nSection 34(1)\nMisuse of trade licences.\n17.\nSection 42(1)\nRegistration mark not fixed on vehicle as required by section 23.\n18.\nSection 43(1)\nDriving or keeping a vehicle with registration mark obscured, etc.\n19.\nSection 59(1), in relation to regulation 18 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973\nFailure to display the correct size, shape and character of registration mark.\nOffences under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995\n20.\nArticle 23\nDriving or riding in a motor vehicle in contravention of regulations requiring the wearing of seat belts.\n21.\nArticle 24(2)\nDriving motor vehicle with child in front not wearing seat belt.\n22.\nArticle 24(5)\nDriving motor vehicle with child in rear not wearing seat belt.\n23.\nArticle 27\nDriving or riding motorcycles in contravention of regulations requiring wearing of protective headgear.\n24.\nArticle 30\nProhibition of parking of heavy commercial vehicles on verges, etc.\n25.\nArticle 32\nLeaving vehicles in dangerous positions.\n26.\nArticle 34 except when the offence is committed by the holder of a temporarily restricted licence during a period of restriction\nCarrying of passengers on motor bicycles contrary to Article 34.\n27.\nArticle 37\nHolding or getting on to vehicle, etc., in order to be towed or carried.\n28.\nArticle 38\nPedestrian endangering own safety or other’s safety.\n29.\nArticle 42\nDangerous cycling.\n30.\nArticle 48\nDriving mechanically propelled vehicles elsewhere than on roads.\n31.\nArticle 49\nFailing to comply with traffic directions.\n32.\nArticle 50\nFailing to comply with traffic signs.\n33.\nArticle 54\nUsing vehicle in dangerous condition, etc.\n34.\nArticle 56\nBreach of requirement as to brakes, steering-gear or tyres.\n35.\nArticle 57\nBreach of requirement as to weight: goods and passenger vehicles.\n36.\nArticle 58\nBreach of other construction and use requirements.\n37.\nArticle 63\nUsing, etc., a motor vehicle without required test certificate being in force.\n38.\nArticle 69(2)\nUsing, etc., a goods vehicle without required goods vehicle test certificate being in force.\n39.\nArticle 71\nDriver of goods vehicle allowing unauthorised persons to be carried in vehicle; unauthorised persons being carried in goods vehicle.\nOffences under the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997\n40.\nArticle 3\nContravention of rule of road or overtaking incorrectly.\n41.\nArticle 4\nContravention of traffic regulation order.\n42.\nArticle 5\nContravention of an experimental traffic control scheme.\n43.\nArticle 7\nContravention of a temporary prohibition or restriction.\n44.\nArticle 14(1)\nContravention of order as to use of a parking place on a road.\n45.\nArticle 19(1)\nCertain contraventions of order relating to designated parking place by driver.\n46.\nArticle 19(3)\nOther contraventions of order relating to designated parking place by driver or person.\n47.\nArticle 43 except when the offence is committed by the holder of a temporarily restricted licence during a period of restriction\nContravening speed limit.\n48.\nArticle 56\nWrongful use of disabled person’s badge.\n49.\nArticle 57\nFailure to produce disabled person’s badge.\n50.\nArticle 59\nContravention of regulations relating to pedestrian crossings.\nOffences against Regulations made under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981\n51.\nArticle 174B in relation to regulation 3 of the Road Vehicles (Traffic) Regulations 1933\nEndangering other vehicles and pedestrians without reasonable cause by slowing down, stopping or turning to the right without having previously signalled intention to do so.", "extent": "N.I.", "status": "prospective", "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Sch. 1 in operation at 1.10.1997, see art. 1" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "S.R. 1991 No. 454, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "S.I. 1993/3160 (N.I. 15)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "1994 c. 22" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f5", "text": "S.R. & O. 1973 No. 490, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f6", "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f7", "text": "See Article 19A(6)(bb)(iv) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 as substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) Sch. 1 and amended by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Sch. 3" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f8", "text": "S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f9", "text": "See: Article 19A(6)(bb)(iv) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 as substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) Sch. 1 and amended by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Sch. 3" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f10", "text": "Article 174B was inserted by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Art. 97" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f11", "text": "S.R. & O. 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