Road Traffic Fixed Penalties (Enforcement of Fines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Regulation 3(2)(b)

SCHEDULE Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996: Article 76(2)Road Traffic Fixed Penalties (Enforcement of Fines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997: Regulation 2(1)

Notice of Registration of a Fixed Penalty as a Fine

To:PETTY SESSIONS OFFICE

COURTHOUSE

ORDER BOOK No.

On the day of 19, a fixed penalty notice was issued against you and remains unpaid.

The Chief Constable (or person authorised on his behalf) has now issued a registration certificate under [Article 61(3)/Article 69(2)*(1)] of the Road Traffic Offenders (NI) Order 1996 requiring a sum equal to the fixed penalty plus one half of the amount of that penalty to be registered under Article 76 of the Road Traffic Offenders (NI) Order 1996 for enforcement as a fine.

You are hereby given notice that:

(a) in consequence of the registration certificate issued by the Chief Constable or person authorised on his behalf the sum of £ has been registered as a fine and is now enforceable by the court of summary jurisdiction acting for the petty sessions district of [];

(b) the particulars of the offence to which the fixed penalty notice relates are:

• Date of offence

• Location of offence

• Nature of offence

• Fixed Penalty Notice No.

• Date Notice to owner/notice to hirer*(1) was issued

• Vehicle Registration No. #(2)

• Driver No. #(2)

(c) you must pay the fine on or before the day of 19either by post in a pre-paid envelope addressed to the clerk of petty sessions at (address of courthouse) or personally at that court office.

If you cannot pay you should on or before the last date for payment mentioned in paragraph (c) above either make an application in writing for further time to pay or for payment to be made in instalments. Your application to the court should be addressed to me, the clerk of petty sessions at the above address.

WARNING

1.  Failure to pay this fine within the time allowed may result in a summons or a warrant for your arrest to secure your attendance at court being issued against you. A court hearing will take place to decide how this fine is to be enforced and an order may be made committing you to prison in default of payment of the fine.

2. Bodies Corporate

If this notice is addressed to a body corporate failure to pay this fine within the time allowed may result in a warrant of distress being issued against the property of that body without further notice for the purpose of recovering the sum.

Dated this day of 19.

Clerk of Petty Sessions

(1)

* delete as appropriate

(2)

# to be completed if known by the clerk of petty sessions