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

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1997 No. 34

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

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

Made

30th January 1997

Coming into operation

13th March 1997

WHEREAS the Department of the Environment has published a notice in compliance with Article 23(1) and (2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1);

AND WHEREAS no objection or representation has been received;

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 (Strabane) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 13th March 1997.

Amendment

2.  The Schedule to the One-Way Traffic (Strabane) Order (Northern Ireland) 1985(2) shall be amended by the addition thereto of the following items—

“Column 1	Column 2
Owenreagh Drive Link	North-westerly
Owenreagh Drive, from its junction with Urney Road to a point approximately 12 metres south of that junction	Southerly”

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

L.S.

J. Carlisle

Assistant Secretary

30th January 1997.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the provisions of the One-Way Traffic (Strabane) Order (Northern Ireland) 1985.

The amendment provides for the introduction of a one-way system of traffic in Owenreagh Drive Link, and in Owenreagh Drive, Strabane, from its junction with Urney Road to a point approximately 12 metres south of that junction.

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.

(1)

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

(2)

S.R. 1985 No. 18