Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Road Traffic (Traffic Wardens) Order (Northern Ireland) 1976. The principal amendments are—
(1) A traffic warden is now empowered in prescribed circumstances to ascertain from a driver his date of birth;
(2) Where there is displayed on a motor vehicle a badge which appears to be or purports to be of a form prescribed under section 14(1) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, a traffic warden may require the driver of the motor vehicle or any person in it to produce the badge for inspection;
(3) A traffic warden may require the owner, driver or other person in certain circumstances to remove a vehicle to another position on a road or to another road or to a place which is not a road. Alternatively the traffic warden may remove the vehicle himself; and
(4) A traffic warden may enforce the law with respect to offences of causing a vehicle, or any part of it, to stop in contravention of regulations relating to pedestrian crossings or leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position.
Article 44 of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 is subject to Article 90(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. An order under Article 44 may not authorise the employment of a traffic warden in relation to fixed penalty offences if the offence appears to the traffic warden to be an offence involving obligatory endorsement unless the offence was committed whilst the vehicle concerned was stationary.