Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 19882.

(1)

The offences specified in paragraph (2) below shall be fixed penalty offences for the purposes of Part 3 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

(2)

The offences referred to in paragraph (1) above are—

(a)

an offence contrary to section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 19882 (using a motor vehicle without the required test certificate being in force);

(b)

an offence contrary to section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3 (using a motor vehicle while uninsured or unsecured against third party risks); and

(c)

an offence contrary to section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 19884 (failure of person keeping vehicle and others to give the police information as to the identity of the driver, etc, in the case of certain offences).

(3)

In consequence of the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) above, the entries in Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 shall be modified as follows—

(a)

after the entry relating to section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted “RTA section 47” in column (1) and “Using, etc, vehicle without required test certificate being in force” in column (2);

(b)

after the entry relating to section 87(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted “RTA section 143” in column (1) and “Using motor vehicle while uninsured or unsecured against third party risks” in column (2); and

(c)

after the entry relating to section 163 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted “RTA section 172” in column (1) and “Failure of person keeping vehicle and others to give the police information as to identity of driver, etc, in the case of certain offences” in column (2).