Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

[F1 Information relating to disabilities, etc. N.I.

19H.   Article 11 shall apply to a Great Britain licence holder who is normally resident in Northern Ireland as if—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the words from the beginning to aware there were substituted “ If a Great Britain licence holder who is authorised by virtue of Article 19E(1) to drive in Northern Ireland a motor vehicle of any class, is aware immediately before the relevant date, or becomes aware on or after that date ”,

(b) after that paragraph there were inserted—

“(1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1) relevant date means—

(a) in the case where the licence holder first became normally resident in Northern Ireland on or before the date on which Article 6 of the Road Traffic (Driving Disqualifications) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 comes into operation, that date; and

(b) in any other case, the date on which he first became so resident.”

(c) [F2 for paragraph (3B) there were substituted]—

“(3B) A person who—

(a) is authorised by virtue of Article 19E(1) to drive in Northern Ireland a motor vehicle of any class, and

(b) drives on a road a motor vehicle of that class,

is guilty of an offence if at any earlier time while he was so authorised he was required by paragraph (1) to notify the Department but has failed without reasonable excuse to do so.”,

(d) in paragraph (4), the words an applicant for, or (in both places) were omitted,

(e) in paragraph (5), the words applicant or and the words from the beginning of sub-paragraph (c) to provisional licence were omitted,

(f) in paragraph (6)(b), the words applicant or (in both places) were omitted,

(g) in paragraph (7), the words applicant or were omitted, and

(h) in subsection (8)—

(i) for 10 there were substituted “ 19G ”, and

(ii) the words applicant or (in both places) were omitted.]

F1 2003 NI 16

F2 Words in art. 19H(c) substituted (15.11.2007) by virtue of Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 3; S.R. 2007/454, art. 2, Sch.