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This Order makes provision with respect to the prosecution and punishment (including the punishment without conviction) of road traffic offences in Northern Ireland.
Part II deals with various matters concerning the trial of road traffic offences and Part III makes provision with respect to the penalties that may be incurred on conviction of such offences. The mode of prosecuting such offences and the manner in which they may be punished is set out in tabular form in Schedule 1. Penalties on conviction include a fine and, in some cases, imprisonment. In addition a court may (and in certain instances must) on convicting a person of some offences order that he be disqualified for driving or that his licence be endorsed. Penalty points may be attributed where a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory endorsement of his driving licence. The penalty points are to be taken into account if he is convicted of a further offence.
Under Part IV persons alleged to have committed certain road traffic offences may discharge liability to conviction by payment of a fixed penalty.
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