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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Minor and consequential amendments

The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53)

103(1)Section 54 of that Act (power to give fixed penalty notices on the spot or at a police station exercisable only if offender would not if convicted be liable to disqualification under section 35) shall be amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), after the word “where”, there shall be inserted the words “in England and Wales”.

(3)After subsection (9) there shall be added—

(10)In determining for the purposes of subsections (3)(b) and (5)(a) above whether a person convicted of an offence would be liable to disqualification under section 35, it shall be assumed, in the case of an offence in relation to which a range of numbers is shown in the last column of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act, that the number of penalty points to be attributed to the offence would be the lowest in the range.