{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-fixed-penalty-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Where payment of fixed penalty not made",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) the suspended enforcement period has expired; and\n(b) the fixed penalty has not been paid; and\n(c) either the person to whom the fixed penalty notice was given has requested a hearing under Article 61(2) or 68(3) or no registration certificate has been issued under Article 75(2),\nthe Chief Constable or a person authorised by him in that behalf shall notify the fixed penalty clerk accordingly and the fixed penalty clerk shall, where an offence involves obligatory endorsement, return the driving licence to the person to whom the fixed penalty notice was given.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2010/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/374/regulation/6",
    "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."
}