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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-34",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1320",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Fine and imprisonment",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence against a provision of the Road Traffic Orders specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 or regulations made under any such provision, the maximum punishment by way of fine or imprisonment which may be imposed on him is that shown in column 4 against the offence; and (where appropriate) the circumstances or the mode of trial are there specified.\n(2) Any reference in column 4 of that Part to a period of years or months is to be construed as a reference to a term of imprisonment of that duration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1320/article/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:50.386033+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."
}