AQW 20414/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she plans to update legislation to require drivers of vehicles to report accidents involving cats or dogs.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 15 June 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 15 June 2021
- Answer due by
- 30 June 2021
- Answered
- 23 June 20218 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Article 175 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 places a statutory obligation on drivers to report accidents that result in injury to another person, to an animal, or damage to property. For the purposes of this provision, an animal is defined as meaning “…any horse, cattle, ass, mule, hinny, sheep, pig, goat or dog”. There are no plans to amend this provision at this point in time.