{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-49.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/2994",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Contravention of directions",
  "text": "(1) If a person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes a direction given by a constable in uniform carrying out functions under the Road Traffic Orders, he is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A constable in uniform giving a direction for the purposes of a traffic survey of any description which is carried out on or in the vicinity of a road shall be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (1) to be carrying out functions under the Orders referred to in paragraph (1).\n(3) The power to give a direction for the purposes of a traffic survey shall be so exercised as not to cause any unreasonable delay to a person who indicates that he is unwilling to furnish any information for the purposes of the survey.\n(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “direction” means a direction—\n(a) to stop a vehicle;\n(b) to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic; or\n(c) to make it proceed to a particular point on or near the road on which the vehicle is being driven or propelled,\nbut does not include a direction requiring any person to furnish any information for the purposes of a traffic survey.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1997 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 49 modified by 2003 (c. 6), Sch. 2A para. 13(3) (as inserted (22.4.2007) by Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), arts. 1(3), 7(8), Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/2994/article/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:55.991221+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."
}