PART III

Fixed Penalties

Miscellaneous and supplemental

Treatment of other offences committed on the same occasion
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1
Section 19 of the Transport Act 1981 (disqualification for repeated offences) shall have effect subject to this section in any case where—
a
a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification ; and
b
the court is satisfied that his driving licence has been or is liable to be endorsed under section 34 or 43 of this Act in respect of an offence committed on the same occasion as the offence of which he is convicted (referred to below in this section as the connected offence).
2
The appropriate number of penalty points for the offence of which he is convicted shall be treated for the purposes of section 19 of that Act as reduced by the number of penalty points required to be endorsed on his licence under section 34 or 43 of this Act in respect of the connected offence.
3
References in this section, in relation to any offence, to the appropriate number of penalty points for that offence are references—
a
to the number of penalty points shown in respect of that offence in Schedule 7 to that Act, where only one number is so shown ; and
b
where a range of numbers is so shown, to a number falling within that range determined by the court as the appropriate number of penalty points in respect of that offence apart from the provisions of this section.
4
In any case within subsection (1) above—
a
the reference in section 19(1)(b) of that Act to the number of penalty points shown in respect of an offence in Schedule 7 to that Act or to a number falling within a range of numbers so shown shall be read in relation to the offence mentioned in subsection (1) above as referring to the number so shown in respect of that offence or (as the case may be) to a number within the range so shown, reduced in either case in accordance with subsection (2) above ; and
b
the reference in section 19(3)(a) to any penalty points that on the occasion of a person's conviction will be ordered to be endorsed on any licence held by him or would be so ordered if he were not then ordered to be disqualified shall be read as referring to any such points that will or would be so ordered after reduction in accordance with subsection (2) above of the appropriate number of penalty points for any offence of which he is then convicted.
1981 c. 56.