R v Wallace

JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1955
Date01 January 1955
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland)
C.C.A., N.I.
Reg
and
Wallace

Motoring offences - Disqualification for life for holding driving licence -Definite period - Motor Vehicles (Traffic and Regulation) Act (Northern Ireland), 1926 (16 17 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 4 (1).

A penalty of disqualification for life for holding a licence to drive a motor vehicle is a penalty for a certain and definite period and a Court has jurisdiction to impose such a penalty for offences under the Road Traffic Acts. R. v. FowlerUNK (1937) 26 Cr. App. R. 80 considered,

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