Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52)
20(1)Section 118 (revoked or suspended licences: surrender, return and endorsement) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1), omit “and its counterpart”.
(3)For subsection (2) substitute—
“(2)Where, in pursuance of section 115 of this Act, the Secretary of State suspends a licence, he must (unless the holder of the licence has already delivered his licence to a traffic commissioner on a reference under section 116 of this Act) serve notice on the holder of the licence requiring him to deliver the licence forthwith to the Secretary of State at the address specified in the notice, and it shall be the duty of the holder of the licence to comply with the requirement.
(2A)On the delivery of the licence or, where the licence has already been delivered to a traffic commissioner, on suspending the licence, the Secretary of State must endorse the particulars of the suspension on the licence holder’s driving record.
(2B)The Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the traffic commissioner, must then return the licence to the holder.”
(4)In subsection (4), omit “and its counterpart”.
(5)Omit subsection (5).