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The Drug Driving (Specified Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014

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Draft 2014, ISBN 9780111117422

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Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 195(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Road Traffic, England And Wales

Made ***

Coming into force 2nd March 2015

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988f1 and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.

A draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 195(4)f2 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c.52; section 5A was inserted by section 56(1) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22).

f2

Section 195(4) was amended by section 56(3) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and regulation 4 of S.I. 1992/3105.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Specified controlled drugs and specified limits for the purposes of section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Drug Driving (Specified Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 2nd March 2015.

(2)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

2Specified controlled drugs and specified limits for the purposes of section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988

The table below specifies the controlled drugsf1 and, in each case, the limit in blood for the purposes of the offence in section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Table

Controlled drugLimit (microgrammes per litre of blood)
Benzoylecgonine50
Clonazepam50
Cocaine10
Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol2
Diazepam550
Flunitrazepam300
Ketamine20
Lorazepam100
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide1
Methadone500
Methylamphetamine10
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine10
6-Monoacetylmorphine5
Morphine80
Oxazepam300
Temazepam1000

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Name

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

Date

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 5A(1) and (2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence for a person to drive, attempt to drive, or be in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place with a specified controlled drug in the body, if the proportion of the drug in that person’s blood or urine exceeds the specified limit for that drug. These Regulations specify the controlled drugs for this purpose and the limit for each expressed as a concentration in blood.

An impact assessment of the effect that the offence will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Road User Licensing, Insurance and Safety Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 4DR (telephone 020 7944 6945). The impact assessment is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on the UK legislation website at www.legislation.gov.uk.