Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 19882

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The Road Traffic Offenders Act 19887 is amended as follows.

2

In section 37 (effect of order of disqualification)8, after subsection (3) add—

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Notwithstanding anything in Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988, a person who holds a Community licence which authorises that person to drive motor vehicles of a particular class, but who is disqualified by an order of a court under section 36 of this Act, is (unless the person is also disqualified otherwise than by virtue of such an order) entitled to drive a motor vehicle of that class in accordance with the same conditions as if the person were authorised to drive a motor vehicle of that class by a provisional licence.