The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Prosecution and punishment of offences

104.—(1) Schedule 2 sets out in tabular form the manner in which offences under this Order are punishable on conviction.

(2) In relation to an offence under a provision of this Order specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 (the general nature of that offence being described in column 2)—

(a) column 3 shows whether that offence is punishable on summary conviction or on indictment or in either one way or the other;

(b) column 4 shows the punishment which may be imposed on a person convicted of the offence in the way specified in relation thereto in column 3 (that is to say, summarily or on indictment), any reference in column 4 to a period of years or months being construed as a reference to a term of imprisonment for that duration.

(3) Unless a contrary intention appears, a reference in Schedule 2 to a period of imprisonment shall be construed as a reference to the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offence, a reference to a fine without a qualifying reference to the amount thereof shall be construed as a reference to an unlimited fine and a reference to the amount of a fine shall be construed as the maximum fine which may be imposed for that offence.

(4) This Article and Schedule 2 shall be subject to any other provision of the Road Traffic Orders with respect to the prosecution and punishment of any offence specified in that Schedule.