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Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981
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- 1981 No. 154 (N.I. 1)
- SCHEDULE 2A
- Offences connected with immobilisation
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[F1Offences connected with immobilisationN.I.
F1Sch. 2A inserted (prosp.) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 25(3), Sch. 3
2.—(1) The regulations may provide that a person contravening provision made under paragraph 1(8) is guilty of an offence.N.I.
(2) The regulations may provide that a person who, without being authorised to do so in accordance with provision made under paragraph 1, removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fixed to a vehicle in accordance with the regulations is guilty of an offence.
(3) The regulations may provide that where they would apply in relation to a vehicle but for provision made under paragraph 1(7)(a) and the vehicle was not, at the time it was stationary, being used–
(a)in accordance with regulations under section 14 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, and
(b)in circumstances falling within section 14B(1)(b) of that Act (use where a disabled person's concession would be available),
the person in charge of the vehicle at that time is guilty of an offence.
(4) The regulations may provide that where–
(a)a person makes a declaration with a view to securing the release of a vehicle from an immobilisation device purported to have been fixed in accordance with the regulations,
(b)the declaration is that no offence under Article 91A is or was being committed as regards the vehicle, and
(c)the declaration is to the person's knowledge either false or in any material respect misleading,
he is guilty of an offence.]
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