The Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 No. 71

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2023 No. 71

Road Traffic And Vehicles

The Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023

Made

20th April 2023

Coming into operation

15th May 2023

The Department for Infrastructure(1) makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 59(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(2) and now vested in it(3).

In accordance with Article 91(1) of that Order the Department has consulted with such representative organisations as it thinks fit.

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on 15th May 2023.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 in operation at 15.5.2023, see art. 1

Amendment of the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) Order N.I.

2.  In Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007(4) (fixed penalties), after item 25 insert—

“25A.

A fixed penalty offence under Article 12 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

£100”.

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 2 in operation at 15.5.2023, see art. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 20th April 2023

Chris Hughes

A senior officer of the

Department for Infrastructure

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 by inserting an amount of £100 for the fixed penalty prescribed for the offence under Article 12 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.

The new fixed penalty relates to the offence of driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place.

An Explanatory Memorandum has been produced and is available from Safe and Accessible Travel Division, Department for Infrastructure, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Town Parks, Belfast BT2 8GB or online alongside this Statutory Rule at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr.

(1)

Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I)). Pursuant to section 1(9) of that Act, the Department of the Environment is dissolved

(2)

S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10); Article 59 was amended by Article 22 of S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)

(3)

See Article 8(1)(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 5 to, the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)

(4)

S.R. 2007 No. 319; the Schedule was substituted and renumbered as Schedule 1 by Article 2(5) of S.R. 2011 No. 288 and further amended by S.R. 2013 No. 6, S.R. 2013 No. 197, S.R. 2014 No. 232, S.R. 2016 No. 182 and S.R. 2020 No. 336