Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes fresh provision with respect to certain aspects of road traffic law in Northern Ireland.
The principal road safety provisions are set out in Part II of the Order and include, in particular, provision for the offences of causing death, or grievous bodily injury, by dangerous driving (Article 9), dangerous driving (Article 10), careless and inconsiderate, driving (Article 12) and causing death, or grievous bodily injury, by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs (Article 14).
Part III of the Order deals with requirements as to the construction and use of vehicles and equipment. It is to be an offence to use a motor vehicle or trailer in such a condition that its use involves a danger of injury to any person (Article 54). The Department is empowered to make regulations generally as to the use of vehicles and their construction (Article 55) and may test the condition of vehicles (Articles 61 and 65).
Part IV of the Order contains miscellaneous amendments of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, some of which extend the enforcement provisions of that Order to offences under this Order.