Road Traffic Act 1960

Penalty for Breach of Regulations and for Aiding, Abetting, &c, Commission of Offences in Scotland

239 Penalty for breach of regulations

If a person acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any regulations made by the Minister or the Secretary of State under this Act (other than regulations made under section twelve, thirty-four, forty-eight, forty-nine or sixty-five thereof) and contravention thereof, or failure to comply therewith, is not made an offence under any other provision of this Act, he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to such maximum "penalty not exceeding a fine of twenty pounds as may be prescribed by the regulations.

240 Penalty for aiding, abetting, and c, commission of offences in Scotland

(1) A person who aids, abets, counsels, procures, or incites any other person to commit an offence against the foregoing provisions of this Act (not being any of the offences mentioned in the next following subsection) shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to the same punishment as might be imposed on conviction of the first-mentioned offence, except that a person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or incites any person employed by him to drive, or subject to his orders in driving, a motor vehicle on a road to commit such an offence as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section four of this Act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2) The offences referred to in the foregoing subsection are offences under the following provisions of this Act, namely, section one, subsection (2) of section six, subsection (1) of section twelve, section fifteen, section seventeen, section thirty-seven, subsection (5) of section forty, subsection (5) of section forty-one, subsection (2) of section forty-eight, subsection (6) of section forty-nine, subsection (1) of section sixty-six, subsection (4) of section sixty-seven, section eighty-eight, subsection (2) of section one hundred and forty-eight, Part IV, subsection (1) of section two hundred and twenty, subsection (2) of section two hundred and twenty-one, section two hundred and twenty-seven, section two hundred and twenty-nine, section two hundred and thirty-four and section two hundred and thirty-eight, an offence under subsection (4) of section two hundred and twenty-five consisting in a contravention of subsection (2) or (3) of that section, an offence under subsection (2) of section two hundred and thirty-three in connection with a licence under Part IV of this Act or in connection with a document or other thing referred to in paragraph (c) or (d) of subsection (1) of that section, and an offence under subsection (1) of section two hundred and thirty-five in connection with a licence under Part IV of this Act.

(3) This section shall extend only to Scotland and is without prejudice to the application of section thirty-one of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, 1949, to the provisions referred to in the last foregoing subsection or to the subsequent provisions of this Act.