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Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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Reduced disqualification for course completion

14.—(1) Article 36 of the Offenders Order (reduced disqualification period for attendance on course) (as substituted by Article 11(1) of the Order of 2007) is amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph (4), insert—

“(4A) Where the person is convicted of a relevant drink offence, thecourt must, unless for special reasons it thinks that to do so is inappropriate and subject to paragraph (9), make an order that the period of disqualification imposed under Article 35 (“the unreduced period”) shall be reduced if, by the relevant date, the offender satisfactorily completes an approved course specified in the order.”.

(3) In paragraph (5)—

(a)for “this Article applies” substitute “the person is convicted of a specified offence”,

(b)for “period”, where it first occurs, to “period)” substitute “unreduced period”.

(4) In paragraph (6), for “paragraph (5)” substitute “paragraphs (4A) and (5)”.

(5) In paragraph (9)—

(a)after sub-paragraph (b), insert “and”,

(b)the word “and” after sub-paragraph (c) is omitted,

(c)sub-paragraph (d) is omitted.

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