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The Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014

S.R. 2014/230 · Made 18 September 2014

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Road Traffic And Vehicles

Made 18th September 2014

Coming into operation 31st October 2014

The Department of the Environment makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 23(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I.1996/1320 (N.I. 10); Article 23 was amended by paragraph 27 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2), Article 2 of S.R. 1999 No.435, Article 2 of S.R. 2001 No.375 and Article 5(2) of S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Order
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 31st October 2014.

2Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Order

In Article 23(2) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (speeding offences etc: admissibility of certain evidence), after sub-paragraph (f)f1 add—

“(g)

an offence under section 11(1) of the HGV Road User Levy Act 2013f2 (offence of using or keeping heavy goods vehicle if levy not paid).”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 18th September 2014

L.S.

Iain Greenway

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Article 23(2) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 to add the offence of using or keeping a heavy goods vehicle on a UK road without paying the levy to the offences to which that Article, which deals with the admissibility of certain evidence, applies.

An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Road Safety and Vehicle Regulation Division, Department of the Environment, Clarence Court,10-18 Adelaide Street, Town Parks, Belfast BT2 8GB or viewed online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr