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The penalty points system for driving offences was introduced in Ireland on 31 October 2002. In April 2006 www.cheapnbajerseysshop.us.com , fixed charge fines for motorists guilty of driving offences were also introduced. The law governing penalty points is the Road Traffic Act 2002. A penalty point is essentially a formal reprimand by the Gardai endorsed on your driving licence that shows you are guilty of a specified driving offence. By the end of December 2006, a total of 392,775 drivers in Ireland had penalty points endorsed on their driving licences. Of that total number, 270,519 held full driving licences Cheap NBA Jerseys Wholesale , 35,857 were provisional drivers and 86,399 had no driving licence. The aim of penalty points is to influence and improve driver behaviour in Ireland and address the unacceptable levels of death and serious injury on our roads. Figures released in 2006 by the Department of Transport and the Marine indicate that 86 of all roads deaths in Ireland can be attributed to driver behaviour. During 2006 for example, 368 people were killed on Irish roads, the second lowest figure in the last forty years. A total of 2 Cheap NBA Jerseys Online ,678 people were killed in the period 2000 2006. Penalty point systems also operate in other countries. International experience has demonstrated the penalty points system has proven successful in reducing the number of road deaths in those countries. While penalty points are endorsed on your driving licence, the points do not physically appear on the licence. Instead, your penalty points are recorded on your driving licence record. Driving licence records are held on the National Driver File operated by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (note, this is due to be transferred to the Department of Transport and the Marine later in 2007. How does the penalty points system work? Penalty point offences are recorded on your driving licence licence if: 1.You are convicted of a driving offence that attracts penalty points Cheap NBA Jerseys , or 2.You are served with a fixed fine notice in respect of an alleged offence that attracts penalty points and you opt to pay the fine rather than having the matter referred to the courts for determination. 3. No driver in Ireland is allowed drive a vehicle while holding 12 current penalty points on their driving licence. Any driver that receives 12 penalty points in any 3 year period, will be automatically faced with a 6 month disqualification from driving. Between 2002 2005 a total of 19 people have been disqualified from driving because they hold 12 penalty points. Do penalty points apply to all Irish driving licences? Yes. Penalty points apply to both provisional and full Irish driving licences. Penalty points also apply to drivers with foreign driving licences driving in Ireland. If someone is driving in Ireland on a foreign licence, the driver s details are held on a separate database for the purpose of recording penalty points. If that driver applies for and obtains an Irish driving licence, the penalty points are then activated on that licence. Penalty points obtained in other jurisdictions A Convention of Driving Disqualification was adopted by EU Member States in 1998. Ireland s Road Traffic Act 2002 provides a framework for implementing the Convention. Section 9 is designed to facilitate the entry into force of the framework for bilateral co operation with other EU Member States in applying driving disqualifications for a number of serious road traffic offences committed in another Member State. Mutual recognition of penalty points between the UK, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man already exists. The Government and British Irish Council are currently examining the recognition of penalty points between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Attorney General is currently examining the complex legal issues involved. When do the points take effect from the date I committed the offence? No. If you have committed a driving offence that incurs penalty points you will receive a written notification from the Department of Transport and the Marine informing you of the fact that the appropriate number of penalty points are being added to your driving licence. This notice will include details of your name, address, date time and location of the driving offence concerned and confirmation of the fact that you either paid the fixed charge for the offence or were convicted in the court of such offence. The notice will also contain a date on which the notice was issued to you. This is the important date as the points will only be added to your licence 28 days after this date. When someone has been issued with a fixed charge notice by the Gardai for a driving offence that incurs penalty points and pays that charge or fine within 56 days the Gardai will notify the Department of Transport of that fact and the Department of Transport and the Marine will then issue to the person notification of the fact that the appropriate number of penalty points are to be added to their driving licence 28 days after the issue of such notification. Similarly, if someone fails to pay the fixed charge notice within 56 days the Gardai will serve a summons on you to appear in the District Court to answer the alleged driving offence. If you are subsequently convicted of the driving offence in court, the District Court will notify the Department of Transport and the Marine of that conviction and of the number of penalty points attaching to that conviction. The Department of Transport and the Marine will then issue to you notification of the fact that the appropriate number of penalty points are to be added to your driving licence 28 days after the date of the issue of such notification. All penalty points added to your driving licence whether by way of payment of the fixed charge notice or by way of conviction in the courts are recorded on the Garda Pulse computer system.