(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends Article 23 of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 to add an offence in respect of the contravention of any regulation under Article 20 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 relating to the use of the hard shoulder of a motorway to the offences to which Article 23 applies. It also prescribes as a device which may be used to produce a record admissible as evidence under that Article, a device for recording the presence of motor vehicles on such an area of road by photographic or other image recording means.