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Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

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Notice of removal of vehicle by district councilN.I.

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8—(1) Article 30 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (NI 19) (removal of abandoned vehicles) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (2) substitute—

(2) Where it appears to a district council that the land on which a motor vehicle is abandoned as aforesaid is occupied by any person, the council shall before removing the vehicle under paragraph (1) serve on that person notice that it proposes to remove the vehicle and the council shall not be entitled to remove it if within the prescribed period that person serves on the council notice that he objects to the proposal.

(2A) Paragraph (2) does not apply where the vehicle is abandoned on a road.

(2B) A district council shall not be required under paragraph (1) to remove a vehicle situated otherwise than on a carriageway if it appears to the council that the cost of its removal to the nearest convenient carriageway would be unreasonably high..

(3) Omit paragraph (3).

(4) In paragraph (4) omit the words from “other than” to “paragraph (3)”.

Commencement Information

I1S. 8 in operation at 18.1.2012 for specified purposes by S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

I2S. 8 in operation at 1.4.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2

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