{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-55.json",
  "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/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“authorised person” has the meaning given by Article 60(8);\n“driver” except in Article 67 means, in relation to an alleged fixed penalty offence, the person by whom, assuming the offence to have been committed, it was committed;\n“proceedings”, except in relation to proceedings for enforcing payment of a sum registered under Article 76, means criminal proceedings.\n“vehicle examiner” means an examiner appointed under Article 74 of the Order of 1995.\n(2) In this Part—\n(a) references to a notice requesting a hearing in respect of an offence are references to a notice indicating that the person giving the notice wishes to contest liability for the offence or seeks a determination by a court with respect to the appropriate punishment for the offence;\n(b) references to an offence include an alleged offence; and\n(c) references to the person who is or was at any time the registered keeper of a vehicle are references to the person in whose name the vehicle is or was at that time registered under the 1994 c. 22. Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 55(1): definition of \"vehicle examiner\" inserted (13.12.2010) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 16, Sch. 2 para. 2; S.R. 2010/370, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1320/article/55",
    "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."
}