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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for certain offences relating to pedestrian crossings regulations to be fixed penalty offences for purposes of Part III of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 and makes modifications to Schedule 3 to the 1988 Act, which specifies offences which are fixed penalty offences for those purposes, in consequence.

The pedestrian crossing offences concerned are those under regulation 8 of the “Zebra” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations 1971 and regulations 16 and 17 of the “Pelican” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1987 read with section 25(5) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.