[F1Endorsement of driving records without hearingsN.I.
63A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a person who is not the holder of a licence has been given a fixed penalty notice under Article 60 in respect of an offence involving obligatory endorsement, his driving record may be endorsed in accordance with this Article without any order of a court.
(2) A person's driving record may not be endorsed under this Article if at the end of the suspended enforcement period–
(a)he has given notice, in the manner specified in the fixed penalty notice, requesting a hearing in respect of the offence to which the fixed penalty notice relates, and
(b)the fixed penalty has not been paid in accordance with this Part.
(3) If payment of the fixed penalty is made before the end of the suspended enforcement period and the person to whom the payment is made is the fixed penalty clerk, the fixed penalty clerk must send to the Department notice of the relevant particulars which are to be endorsed on the person's driving record.
(4) Where any sum determined by reference to the fixed penalty is registered under Article 76 for enforcement against the person as a fine in a case where the fixed penalty is required to be paid to the fixed penalty clerk, the fixed penalty clerk must, on the registration of that sum, send to the Department notice of the relevant particulars which are to be endorsed on the person's driving record.
(5) The Department must endorse the relevant particulars on the person's driving record if–
(a)it receives notice of them under paragraph (3) or (4),
(b)the fixed penalty is paid to it before the end of the suspended enforcement period, or
(c)in a case where the fixed penalty is required to be paid to the Department, any sum determined by reference to the fixed penalty is registered under Article 76 for enforcement against the person as a fine.
(6) References in this Article to the relevant particulars are to–
(a)particulars of the offence, including the date when it was committed, and
(b)the number of penalty points to be attributed to the offence.]
F1Art. 63A inserted (14.12.2010) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 39(5); S.R. 2010/370, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II