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Fixed penalties reviewed - parking fines to rise to £60
PARKING fines will increase from £40 to £60 from August 1.
And the increase is just one of a range of changes to fixed penalties being implemented by the Department of Infrastructure on that date aimed at encouraging greater compliance with road traffic regulations
The Road Traffic Regulation (Fixed Penalty) Order 2012 prescribes three bands of penalties.
The first involves the fixed penalty for more serious offences involving obligatory endorsement which will be increased from £80 to £120.
These include offences such as: parking on the zig-zags at a pedestrian crossing; exceeding the speed limit; leaving a vehicle in dangerous position; and breaching the conditions of a provisional licence.
The second band relates to a new fixed penalty of £120 which has been prescribed for the unlawful use of disabled persons’ off-street or on-street parking spaces.
This is designed to act as an increased deterrent compared to the current fine of £40.
The third band involves the fixed penalty for non-endorsable offences, such as on-street parking offences, the fines for which will increase from £40 to £60.
The penalty of £40 was last prescribed in 2002.
All fixed penalty fines that are not paid within 42 days automatically increase by 50 per cent thereafter as they do at present.
Infrastructure Minister David Cretney MHK said: ‘I am particularly concerned about the level of abuse of disabled parking bays, of which there were 201 fixed penalties issued in 2011.
‘I am hoping therefore that the new fine of £120, which is double the standard fine of £60, will act as an incentive and stop the illegal use of disabled parking bays.’
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