VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972

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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 8



8.(1) If any person uses or keeps on a public road any mechanically propelled
vehicle for which a licence is not in force, not being a vehicle exempted from
duty under this Act by virtue of any statutory provision (including any
provision of this Act), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the greater of the following
fines

(a)a fine of #50;

(b)a fine equal to five times the amount of the duty chargeable in respect of
the vehicle.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence under this section, it shall be a
defence to prove that

(a)while an expired vehicle licence for the vehicle was in force, an
application was duly made for a further vehicle licence for the vehicle to
take effect from or before the expiration of the expired licence and for a
period including the time in question; and

(b)the expired licence was at that time fixed to and exhibited on the vehicle
in the manner prescribed in pursuance of section 12(4); and

(c)the period between the expiration of the expired licence and that time did
not exceed fourteen days.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), an application for a further
licence is made when the application is received by the Ministry.

(4) For the purposes of this section

(a)where a vehicle for which a vehicle licence is in force is transferred by
the holder of the licence to another person, the licence shall be treated as
no longer in force unless it is delivered to that other person with the
vehicle;

(b) the amount of the duty chargeable in respect of a vehicle shall be taken
to be an amount equal to the annual rate of duty applicable to the vehicle at
the date on which the offence was committed or, where, in the case of a
vehicle kept on a public road, that rate differs from the annual rate by
reference to which the vehicle was at that date chargeable under section 1 in
respect of the keeping thereof, equal to the last-mentioned rate.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4)(b), the offence shall, in the case of a
conviction for a continuing offence, be taken to have been committed on the
date or latest date to which the conviction relates.

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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 8