{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-79.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/79",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Provisions as to Great Britain licences",
  "text": "(1) In this Article “Great Britain driving licence” has the same meaning as in Part II.\n(2) The Department may exercise as respects Northern Ireland the like power of revoking or suspending any Great Britain driving licence and of making an order under Article 74(2) as is conferred on it in relation to a large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle driver's licence by Articles 73(1)(b) and 74(2), and the provisions of Articles 73(1) and (4) to (8), 74 and (with the exception of paragraph (2)) 75 shall have effect accordingly.\n(3) Where a revoked Great Britain driving licence is surrendered to the Department in pursuance of Article 75, the Department shall send it to the Secretary of State together with particulars of the revocation.\n(4) A holder of a Great Britain driving licence who is aggrieved by the revocation or suspension of the licence or the ordering of disqualification by virtue of paragraph (2) shall have the like right of appeal as is conferred by Article 76 except that an appeal brought by virtue of this paragraph shall, if the appellant is not resident in Northern Ireland, lie to such court of summary jurisdiction as may be prescribed by magistrates' courts rules.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1996/426"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1994/365"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in art. 79(3) substituted (8.6.2015) by The Road Safety Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/583), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 8(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in art. 79(3) substituted (8.6.2015) by The Road Safety Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/583), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 8(e)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2007/916",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2007/916",
      "affecting_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/79",
    "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."
}