SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 2AImmobilisation, removal and disposal of vehicles
Offences connected with immobilisation
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1
The regulations may provide that a person contravening provision made under paragraph 1(8) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
2
The regulations may provide that a person who, without being authorised to do so in accordance with provision made under paragraph 1, removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fixed to a vehicle in accordance with the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
3
The regulations may provide that where they would apply in relation to a vehicle but for provision made under paragraph 1(7)(a) and the vehicle was not, at the time it was stationary, being used—
a
b
the person in charge of the vehicle at that time is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
4
The regulations may provide that where—
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a person makes a declaration described in paragraph 1(6A)(a), (b) or (c) with a view to securing the release of a vehicle from an immobilisation device purported to have been fixed in accordance with the regulations, and
b
the declaration is that the vehicle is or was an exempt vehicle, and
c
the declaration is to the person’s knowledge either false or in any material respect misleading,
he is guilty of an offence.
5
The regulations may provide that a person guilty of an offence by virtue of provision made under sub-paragraph (4) is liable—
a
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and
b
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or (except in Scotland) to both.
Sch. 2A inserted (1.5.1995) by 1995 c. 4, s. 19, Sch. 4 para. 36(2)