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The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2020

S.R. 2020/334 · Made 16 December 2020

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Road Traffic And Vehicles

Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on 2nd February 2021

Made 16th December 2020

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)

The Department for Infrastructuref1 makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 30(7) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f2 and now vested in itf3.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment is dissolved

f2

S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)

f3

See Article 8(1)(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 5 to, the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and application
  2. 2Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and application

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2020 and shall come into operation on the day after the day on which it is affirmed by resolution of the Assembly.

(2)

This Order does not apply to offences committed before this Order comes into operation.

2Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

In Part 1 of Schedule 1 (prosecution and punishment of offences) to the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, in column 7 of the entry relating to offences under Article 56Af1 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995f2, for “3” substitute—

“(a)

3, in the case of an offence under Article 56A(a);

(b)

6, in the case of an offence under Article 56A(b).”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 16th December 2020

L.S.

Chris Hughes

A senior officer of the

Department for Infrastructure

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, to increase the number of obligatory penalty points attributable to an offence under section 56A(b) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (“the 1995 Order”) from three to six points.

Article 56A(b) of the 1995 Order relates to the offence of driving or supervising the driving of a motor vehicle while using a hand held mobile telephone, or other hand held interactive communication device or causing or permitting the driving of a motor vehicle by another person using such a telephone or other device.

An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Safe and Accessible Travel Division, Department for Infrastructure, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8GB or online alongside this Order at http://www,legislation.gov.uk/nisr