{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-181",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-181.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/154",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/181",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "181",
  "heading": "Power to arrest persons resident outside United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) A person who, being resident outside the United Kingdom, commits in Northern Ireland an offence to which this Article applies may be arrested without warrant by a constable and detained until he enters into a recognizance under the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 to appear before a magistrates' court to answer a complaint charging that offence.\n(2) The offences to which this Article applies are—\n(a) any offence under Article 90;\n(b) any offence under Article 9 of the Order of 1995;\n(bb) any offence under Article 10 of the Order of 1995;\nSub-para. (c) rep. by 1991 NI 3",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 NI 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1995 NI 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/181",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+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."
}