Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 2913
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997
Made 8th December 1997
Laid before Parliament 10th December 1997
Coming into force 31st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31(6) and (7) of the Road Traffic Act 1991, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
1991 c. 40.

Commencement and citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

Revocation
2. The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992 is hereby revoked.
S.I. 1992/3014.

Interpretation
3. In this Order “experimental period” has the meaning given in section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991.
The “experimental period” was extended by the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/949).

Designation of areas and districts
4. The following areas and districts are hereby designated for the purposes of section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991—
(a) the petty sessions areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(b) the districts and the commission area in Scotland specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Period of designation
5. Those areas and districts are designated until the end of the experimental period.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
8th December 1997

SCHEDULE 1 PETTY SESSIONS AREAS
Regulation 4(a)
Petty sessional divisions of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts
Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage
Aldridge & Brownhills
Appleby
Ashford and Tenterden
Bath and Wansdyke
Birmingham
Bishops Stortford
Boston
Bourne and Stamford
Bournemouth and Christchurch
Brecon
Bridgnorth
Bristol
Bromsgrove and Redditch
Burton upon Trent
Caistor
Cannock
Canterbury and St. Augustine
Cardiff
Carlisle
Carmarthen South
Carmarthen North
Central Dorset
Ceredigion Ganol
Cheshunt
Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury
Cleddau
Corby
Cynon Valley
Dacorum
Dartford
De Ceredigion
Deben
Dinefwr
Dover and East Kent
Drayton
Dudley
Elloes
Exeter
Exmouth
Faversham and Sittingbourne
Folkestone and Hythe
Forest
Forest of Dean
Furness and District
Gainsborough
Gloucester
Gogledd Ceredigion
Gogledd Preseli
Grantham
Gravesham
Hartlepool
Hertford and Ware
Ipswich
Kendal and Lonsdale
Kennet
Keswick
Kettering
Knowsley
Lichfield
Lincoln District
Liverpool
Llanelli
Ludlow
Machynlleth
Maidenhead
Maidstone
Market Rasen
Medway
Mendip
Merthyr Tydfil
Mid Staffordshire
Mid-Hertfordshire
Miskin
Neath Port Talbot
New Forest
Newcastle and Ogmore
Newcastle Under Lyme and Pirehill North
Newtown
North Avon
North East Suffolk
North Gloucestershire
North Hertfordshire
North Sefton
North West Hampshire
North West Suffolk
North Wiltshire
Northampton
Oswestry
Oxford
Penrith and Alston
Peterborough
Pontefract
Poole
Radnorshire and North Brecknock
Reading and Sonning
Risbridge
Rugeley
Sedgemoor
Seisdon
Sevenoaks
Severnminster
Shrewsbury
Sleaford
Slough
Solihull
South Gloucestershire
South Lakes
South Pembrokeshire
South Sefton
South Somerset
South Worcestershire
Southampton
Spilsby and Skegness
St. Albans
St. Edmundsbury
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stoke on Trent
Stourbridge and Halesowen
Stow
Sudbury and Cosford
Sutton Coldfield
Swansea County
Swindon
Tamworth
Taunton Deane
Telford
Thame and Henley
Thanet
The Wolds
Tonbridge and Malling
Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook
Vale of Glamorgan
Wakefield
Walsall
Warley
Watford
Wellingborough
Welshpool
West Allerdale
West Bromwich
West Dorset
West Somerset
West Wiltshire
Weymouth and Portland
Whitehaven
Wigton
Windsor
Ystradgynlais
Metropolitan Districts not divided into petty sessional divisions
Barnsley
Doncaster
Rotherham
Sheffield
South Tyneside
St. Helens
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Outer London Boroughs not divided into petty sessional divisions
Bexley
Bromley
Croydon
Petty sessional divisions of the inner London area
North Westminster
South Central
South Eastern
South Western
South Westminster
Thames
West Central
West London

SCHEDULE 2 DISTRICTS AND COMMISSION AREA IN SCOTLAND
Regulation 4(b)
Districts
Dumbarton Sheriff Court district
Glasgow and Strathkelvin Sheriff Court district
Greenock Sheriff Court district
Hamilton Sheriff Court district
Paisley Sheriff Court district
Stornoway Sheriff Court district
Commission Area
City of Glasgow District

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes and replaces with modifications the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992. Sections 34A and 34B of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 give courts in designated areas the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced, if he completes a course approved by the Secretary of State. Section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 applies those provisions during an experimental period which runs to the end of 1999.
This Order adds further areas to the list of areas designated for the purposes of section 31 of the 1991 Act by the 1992 Order. It takes account of relevant changes made under the Local Government Act 1992(c. 19).