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Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 73

PUBLIC HEALTH

Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

1st March 2004

Coming into operation

31st March 2004

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 6(7) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994(1) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 31st March 2004.

Amount of fixed penalty

2.  For the amount of £25 specified as the amount of the fixed penalty in Article 6(6) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 there shall be substituted the amount of £50.

Revocation

3.  The Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998(2) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 1st March 2004.

L.S.

Judena Goldring

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Article 6 of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 makes provision for the payment of a fixed penalty to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence of leaving litter under Article 3 or permitting dogs to foul under Article 4 of that Order.

This Order increases the amount of the fixed penalty from £25 to £50.

This Order revokes the Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998, which had increased the fixed penalty from £10 to £25.

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