2000 No. 390
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Districts) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 39(4) and (6) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 19961, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Districts) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 31st December 2000.

Designated districts2.

(1)

The petty sessions districts specified in the Schedule are designated for the purposes of Article 39 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

(2)

The period from the 31st December 2000 to the 31st December 2005 is hereby specified as the period for which the petty sessions districts mentioned in paragraph (1) are designated.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

SCHEDULEPetty Sessions Districts

Name of Petty Sessions District

Londonderry

Limavady

North Antrim

Larne

Ballymena

Magherafelt

East Tyrone

Strabane

Omagh

Fermanagh

Craigavon

Armagh

Newry and Mourne

Banbridge

Down

Lisburn

Antrim

North Down

Ards

Castlereagh

Belfast and Newtownabbey

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Articles 36 to 38 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, give a court power to order that the period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a prescribed drink-drive offence is to be reduced if he completes a course approved by the Department of the Environment. Article 39 of the Offenders Order applies those provisions with modification during an experimental period. In particular, during the experimental period, orders can be made only by a court of summary jurisdiction acting for a designated district.

This Order designates petty sessions districts specified in the Schedule for the purposes of Article 39 of the Offenders Order and specifies the period for which they are designated.