The Taxis (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 have been brought into operation by commencement order made before the date of this Order.

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.R. No.
Section 21	23rd November 2009	2009 No. 352 (C. 25)
Section 40
Section 54(1) insofar as it relates to the power in Article 65 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) to make bye-laws the provisions of which are, or could be, included in an order under Article 27A of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(2), (4) and (5)
Paragraphs 1, 6(a), 11, 12 and 13(a) of Schedule 2 and section 58(1) insofar as it relates to those paragraphs
Section 1 (partially)	8th August 2012 1st September 2012	2012 No. 313 (C. 28)
Section 2 (partially)	8th August 2012 1st September 2012
Section 3 (partially)	8th August 2012 1st September 2012
Section 4	1st September 2012
Section 25	1st September 2012
Section 26	1st September 2012
Section 27	1st September 2012
Section 28 (partially)	8th August 2012 1st September 2012
Section 29	1st September 2012
Section 30 (partially)	8th August 2012 1st September 2012
Section 31	1st September 2012
Section 32	1st September 2012
Section 33 (partially)	8th August 2012
Section 33(1)(a), (c) to (e) and (2) in so far as not already in operation	1st September 2012
Section 34	1st September 2012
Section 35	1st September 2012
Section 37	1st September 2012
Section 38	1st September 2012
Section 44	1st September 2012
Section 45	1st September 2012
Section 46	1st September 2012
Section 47	1st September 2012
Section 48 and Schedule 1 relating to offences under the following sections— Section 1(3) Operating a taxi service without an operator’s licence, Section 3(5) Knowingly keeping or making false records etc, Section 3(10) Operating a taxi service in respect of unlicensed taxi or in respect of taxi driven by unlicensed driver, Section 3(11) Contravention of other operator’s duties, Section 4(2) Sub-contracting work to a non-licensed operator, Section 31(5) Failure to produce documents etc., Section 32(6) Failure to comply with requirement or direction to return licence, plate, etc. or badge, Section 37(3) Failure to comply with an enforcement notice, Section 44(1) Knowingly etc. to make false statement or furnish false information, Section 44(2) Forging, possessing, documents, etc. with intent to deceive, Section 45(1) Obstruction of constable or authorised officer, Section 45(2) Failure to comply with requirement of constable or authorised officer or failure to give a constable or authorised officer assistance or information, Section 45(3) Knowingly to make a false statement to authorised officer or constable.	1st September 2012
Section 50	1st September 2012
Section 53	1st September 2012
Section 22	31st October 2014	2014 No. 238 (C. 15)
Section 23 (partially) Section 23 insofar as not already in operation, except for subsection (8)	24th September 2014 31st October 2014
Section 24	31st October 2014
Section 48 and Schedule 1 relating to offences under the following sections— Section 22(2) Driving a taxi without a taxi driver’s licence, Section 22(3) Operating a taxi service driven by a taxi driver without a taxi driver’s licence or owning a taxi being driven by a taxi driver without a taxi driver’s licence, Section 22(5) Driving a taxi without a taxi driver’s licence for that class of taxi, Section 22(6) Operating a taxi service driven by a taxi driver without a taxi driver’s licence for that class of taxi or owning a taxi driven by a taxi driver without a taxi driver’s licence for that class of taxi, Section 24(5) Failure to wear a taxi driver’s badge or display other identification.	31st October 2014
Section 52 (partially) Section 52 insofar as not already in operation	24th September 2014 31st October 2014
Section 58(2) and Schedule 3 insofar as they relate to the repeal of— Article 79A of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981; Article 6 of, and Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991; and In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order1996, the entry relating to Article 79A of the 1981 Order.	31st October 2014
Section 13 Taxi licences (partially)	9th December 2014	2014 No. 300 (C. 16)(3)
Section 15 Identification of licensed vehicles (partially)	9th December 2014
Section 19 Taxis not to carry more than the prescribed number of persons (partially)	9th December 2014
Section 20 Regulations concerning taxis or use of taxis (partially)	9th December 2014

(1)

S.I.1981/154 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I.1997/276 (N.I.2)

(3)

S.R. 2014 No. 300 (C. 16) was amended by S.R. 2015 No. 257 (C. 20)