{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-57.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/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Fixed penalty offences",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), for the purposes of this Part a “fixed penalty offence” is an offence specified in an order made under paragraph (2).\n(2) The Department may by order specify as a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of this Part, any offence committed in respect of a vehicle, being an offence created under a statutory provision and punishable on summary conviction.\n(3) Notwithstanding that an offence is specified by order under paragraph (2), it shall not be a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of this Part if it is committed—\n(a) by causing or permitting a vehicle to be used by another person in contravention of any provision made or restriction or prohibition imposed by or under any statutory provision,. . .\nSub‐para. (b) rep. by 1998 NI 7",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 NI 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1320/article/57",
    "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."
}