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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 23

Combination of disqualification or disability for motoring offences with probation orders and orders for discharge.

23.(1) In section 8(2) of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland) 1950
(conviction of an offender placed on probation or discharged to be disregarded
for the purpose of enactments relating to disqualification) the reference to
any enactment which authorises or requires the imposition of any
disqualification or disability shall not include a reference to any enactment
contained in the Road Traffic [(Northern Ireland) Order 1981], so, however,
that where a person fails to comply with the requirements of a probation order
or commits a further offence during the probation period or during the period
of conditional discharge, nothing in this subsection or in the said Act of
1950 shall operate to confer power on any court to extend a period for which
that person was disqualified under any provision of the said [Order of 1981]
on his conviction of the offence for which he was placed on probation or
conditionally discharged or to order that the offender shall be disqualified
for the last-mentioned offence.

(2) Section 8(1) of the said Act of 1950 (conviction of an offender placed on
probation or discharged shall not be deemed to be a conviction for any other
purpose) shall not apply to an offence under any provision of the Road Traffic
[(Northern Ireland) Order 1981] where a person convicted of a second or
subsequent offence under that provision is subject to a longer minimum period
of disqualification, or is otherwise liable to be dealt with more severely
than a person convicted of a first offence under that provision.

(3) In this section "disqualified" means disqualified from holding or
obtaining a [driving licence or a provisional licence as defined in Article
2(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981].

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