Explanatory note

This Order, which extends to Scotland only, increases the amounts of the fixed penalties which may be offered by the procurator fiscal as an alternative to prosecution for certain road traffic offences under Part III of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. The fixed penalty for an offence involving obligatory endorsement of a driving licence is increased from £32 to £40 and for other offences from £16 to £20.

The offences to which the fixed penalty procedure can be applied are the road traffic offences listed in Schedule 3 and 5 to the Act.

The fixed penalties as increased by this Order will apply also to those provisions of Part III of the Act which enable police constables to issue fixed penalty notices in relation to the road traffic offences listed in Schedule 3 to the Act but these provisions are only in force in so far as they relate to stationary vehicles.