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The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) Order 1997

S.I. 1997/949 · Made 13 March 1997

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ROAD TRAFFIC

Made 13th March 1997

Coming into force 1st April 1997

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament in pursuance of section 31(9)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1991f1;

Now therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31(1) and (8) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1991 c. 40.

Contents

  1. 1Commencement and citation
  2. 2Extension of the Experimental Period
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Commencement and citation

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

2Extension of the Experimental Period

The end of 1999 is hereby specified in place of the end of 1997 for the purposes of section 31(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (experimental period for the application of section 34A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988f1).

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Bowis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

13th March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 31(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 provides that no order shall be made under section 34A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (which provides that courts acting for designated areas have the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced if by a date specified in the order, the offender satisfactorily completes a course approved by the Secretary of State) after the end of 1997 or such later date as may be specified. This Order specifies the end of 1999 in place of the end of 1997.