The Fixed Penalty (Increase) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 334

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Fixed Penalty (Increase) Order 1990

Made

23rd February 1990

Laid before Parliament

5th March 1990

Coming into force

1st April 1990

In exercise of the power conferred upon me by section 53(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(1), and after consultation with the organisations mentioned in section 88(2) of that Act, I hereby make the following Order:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Fixed Penalty (Increase) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(2) This Order applies in relation to a fixed penalty offence alleged to be committed on or after 1st April 1990.

(3) This Order shall not extend to Scotland.

2.  For the amount of £24 specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 53 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 there shall be substituted the amount of £32 and for the amount of £12 specified in paragraph (b) of that subsection there shall be substituted the amount of £16.

Home Office

David Waddington

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

23rd February 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the amount of the fixed penalty for a fixed penalty offence to £32 from £24, in the case of an offence involving obligatory endorsement, and £16 from £12, in any other case.

(1)

1988 c. 53