{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-85.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/85",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Certificates about payment",
  "text": "In any proceedings a certificate—\n(a) that payment of a fixed penalty was or was not received, by a date specified in the certificate, by the person to whom it was required to be paid, or\n(b) that a letter containing an amount sent by post in payment of a fixed penalty was marked as posted on a date so specified,\nshall, if the certificate purports to be signed by the person to whom it was required to be paid, be evidence of the facts stated.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 85(a) substituted (13.12.2010) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 16, Sch. 2 para. 20; S.R. 2010/370, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 85 substituted (13.12.2010) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 16, Sch. 2 para. 20; S.R. 2010/370, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1320/article/85",
    "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."
}