{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/374",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Fixed Penalty (Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Payment of fixed penalties",
  "text": "(1) On receipt of the remittance in respect of a fixed penalty the fixed penalty clerk shall notify the Chief Constable that the remittance has been received.\n(2) If payment of the fixed penalty is made by a person otherwise than as required by the fixed penalty notice the fixed penalty clerk shall return the remittance to that person.\n(3) Where a remittance in respect of a fixed penalty is sent by a person to a clerk of petty sessions who is not the fixed penalty clerk specified in the fixed penalty notice, the clerk of petty sessions shall return the remittance to that person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.10.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/374",
      "affecting_title": "Road Traffic Fixed Penalty (Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/374/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:38.775323+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."
}