C1 Part I Principal Road Safety Provisions

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. I modified (E.W.S.) (16.8.2006) by The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2167), art. 27

F2Motor racing on public ways

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S. 12 cross-heading substituted (10.3.2017) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 75(2), 115(7); S.I. 2017/273, art. 2(c)

12 Motor racing on public ways.

1

A person who promotes or takes part in a race or trial of speed between motor vehicles on a public way is guilty of an offence.

F31A

Subsection (1) is subject to—

a

in relation to England and Wales, sections 12A to 12F (which make provision to allow the holding of races or trials of speed between motor vehicles on public ways in England and Wales);

b

in relation to Scotland, sections 12G to 12I (which make provision to allow the holding of races or trials of speed between motor vehicles on public ways in Scotland).

2

In this section “public way” means, in England and Wales, a F1highway and, in Scotland, a public road.