Prospective
8B—(1) This Article applies where a person is convicted of an offence for which a court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under Article 8 for holding or obtaining a driving licence or a provisional licence granted under Part 2 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1)) and—
(a)the court proposes to impose on the person a custodial sentence (other than a suspended sentence) for another offence, or
(b)at the time of sentencing for the offence, a custodial sentence imposed on the person on an earlier occasion has not expired.
(2) In determining the period for which the person is to be disqualified under Article 8, the court must have regard to the consideration in paragraph (3) if and to the extent that it is appropriate to do so.
(3) The consideration is the diminished effect of disqualification as a distinct punishment if the person who is disqualified is also detained in pursuance of a custodial sentence.
(4) If the court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under Article 8 and to impose a custodial sentence for the same offence, the court may not in relation to that disqualification take that custodial sentence into account for the purposes of paragraph (2).
(5) In this Article “custodial sentence” and “suspended sentence” have the same meaning as in Article 8A.]
F1Arts. 8A, 8B inserted (prosp.) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 137, 182(5), Sch. 16 para. 1 (with s. 180, Sch. 22 para. 29)