15.—(1) The Road Traffic Fixed Penalties (Enforcement of Fines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2, omit the definitions of “county court division” and “petty sessions district”.
(3) In regulation 3(2)(a), omit “for that petty sessions district”.
(4) In regulation 4, for paragraph (2), substitute—
“(2) A magistrates’ court may, upon complaint made by the clerk of petty sessions, at any time after the expiration of 14 days from the due date and before the expiration of 6 months from that date—
(a)issue and cause to be served on the defendant a summons for the appearance of the defendant before a court of summary jurisdiction; or
(b)by warrant cause the defendant to be brought before a court of summary jurisdiction.”.
(5) In regulation 4A(3), omit “for the petty sessions district in which the sum payable in default is registered”.
(6) In regulation 5(5), for the words from “a court acting” to the end, substitute “a court of summary jurisdiction”.
(7) In regulation 6(2), omit “for the petty sessions district in which the sum payable in default is registered”.
(8) In regulation 9, omit “for the petty sessions district in which a sum payable in default is registered”.
(9) In the Schedule, in paragraph (a), for “the court of summary jurisdiction acting for the petty sessions district of […]”, substitute “a court of summary jurisdiction”.
S.R. 1997 No. 344 as amended by S.R. 2011 No. 242