Part 1

Traffic Officers

Miscellaneous and supplementary

Offences
10
1
A person who assaults a traffic officer in the execution of his duties is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).
2
A person who resists or wilfully obstructs a traffic officer in the execution of his duties is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (or both).
3
A person who, with intent to deceive—
a
impersonates a traffic officer,
b
makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he is a traffic officer, or
c
makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he has powers as a traffic officer that exceed the powers he actually has,
is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).
4
A person to whom this subsection applies who fails to give his name and address to a traffic officer in uniform on being required to do so by that officer is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
5
Subsection (4) applies to a person whom the traffic officer reasonably believes to have been the driver of a vehicle at a time of a failure to comply with—
a
a direction given in relation to that vehicle under a power conferred by section 6, or
b
the indication given by a traffic sign placed under a power conferred by section 7.
6
In the case of offences committed before the commencement of section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003—
a
subsections (1) and (3) apply as if for “51 weeks” there were substituted “six months”; and
b
subsection (2) applies as if for “51 weeks” there were substituted “one month”.