One-Way Traffic (Belfast) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 7th April 1997

Coming into operation: 21st July 1997

NOW THEREFORE the Department, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 21(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the One-Way Traffic (Belfast) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 21st July 1997.

Amendment

2

Schedule 2 to the One-Way Traffic (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986[^f00002] shall be amended by the addition thereto of the following items—

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

J. Carlisle — Assistant Secretary — 7th April 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the provisions of the One-Way Traffic (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986.

The amendment provides for—

1 a northbound one-way traffic system in that part of Dudley Street, Belfast, between its junction with Fitzroy Avenue and its junction with University Street;

2 a southbound one-way traffic system in that part of Dudley Street, Belfast, between its junction with Fitzroy Avenue and its junction with Rugby Avenue; and

3 a northbound one-way traffic system in Sandhurst Road, Belfast. Any person who acts in contravention of the Order shall be guilty of an offence under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (£1,000). Traffic signs indicating the effect of the Order will in due course be erected on the roads.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”

[^f00002]: S.R. 1986 No. 6 to which there are no relevant amendments