The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Districts) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made: 11th December 2000

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 31st December 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 39(4) and (6) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Districts) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 31st December 2000.

Designated districts

2

• (1) The petty sessions districts specified in the Schedule are designated for the purposes of Article 39 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

• (2) The period from the 31st December 2000 to the 31st December 2005 is hereby specified as the period for which the petty sessions districts mentioned in paragraph (1) are designated.

SCHEDULE — Petty Sessions Districts

Signed

Irvine of Lairg, C. — Dated 11th December 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Articles 36 to 38 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, give a court power to order that the period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a prescribed drink-drive offence is to be reduced if he completes a course approved by the Department of the Environment. Article 39 of the Offenders Order applies those provisions with modification during an experimental period. In particular, during the experimental period, orders can be made only by a court of summary jurisdiction acting for a designated district.

This Order designates petty sessions districts specified in the Schedule for the purposes of Article 39 of the Offenders Order and specifies the period for which they are designated.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)