Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

Disposal of removed vehicle by district council

9.—(1) The Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In Article 31 (disposal of removed vehicles), in paragraph (1)—

(a) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) in the case of a vehicle which in the opinion of the district council is in such a condition that it ought to be destroyed, at any time in the course of or after its removal;

(b) in the case of a vehicle, not falling within sub-paragraph (a), which—

(i) does not display a licence (whether current or otherwise and whether or not the vehicle is required to display a licence), and

(ii) does not display any registration mark (whether indicating registration within or outside the United Kingdom),

at any time in the course of or after its removal;”;

(b) omit the words from “but, in a case” to the end.

(3) Omit paragraph (2) of Article 31.

(4) In Article 36(1) (interpretation, etc., of Part 2), in the definition of “licence” after the words “the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994” insert “(including a nil licence within the meaning of that Act)”.