# The Fixed Penalty Offences Order 2004, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for the offence specified in Article 2(2) to be a fixed penalty offence. Article 2(2) specifies the offence of failing to wear prescribed types of authorised eye protectors when driving or riding on a motor bicycle. Article 2(3) of the Order inserts a reference to that offence in Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, which lists those offences that are fixed penalty offences for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2922/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-penalty-offences-order-2004/note
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