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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/49" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2006" Number="0049">Road Safety Act 2006</Citation></Title>
<Number>49</Number>
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<DateText>8 November 2006</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00119" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/49/section/27" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-27">Section 27</CitationSubRef>: Power of police to stop vehicle</Title>
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<Text>This section amends column (4) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the <Abbreviation Expansion="Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 c. 53">RTOA</Abbreviation> to increase the penalty available for an offence under section 163 of the <Abbreviation Expansion="Road Traffic Act 1988 c. 52">RTA</Abbreviation> (failure to stop a mechanically propelled vehicle when required to do so by a constable) from a fine of level 3 on the standard scale (£1,000) to level 5 (£5,000). The penalty in relation to cycles is unaffected.</Text>
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<Text>This section also amends column (2) of that Schedule to replace the word "motor" with "mechanically propelled", in order to reflect the fact that in the Road Traffic Act 1991 the section 163 offence was amended to refer to "mechanically propelled vehicle".</Text>
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