{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2012/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2012/rule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1363",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2012",
  "path": "rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph (3) of rule 1 (interpretation etc)—\n(a) in the definition of “appropriate national authority” after “Scottish Ministers” insert “, the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland”;\n(b) for the definition of “authorised person” substitute—\n““authorised person” means—\n(a)an examiner appointed by the Secretary of State under section 66A of the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n(b)an examiner appointed by the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland under Article 74 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; or\n(c)any person authorised in writing by the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland for the purposes of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010;\nand includes a person acting under the direction of such an examiner or other authorised person, who has detained the vehicle to which an appeal relates;”\n(c) in the definition of “respondent”, for “against any other decision except a decision of a traffic commissioner” substitute “other than a road transport case”;\n(d) before the definition of “tribunal” insert—\n““road transport case” means an appeal against a decision of a traffic commissioner or the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5 in force at 1.7.2012, see rule 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c.52. Section 66A was inserted by section 9(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 7 to the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2010 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1363/rule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:41.672978+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."
}