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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006-commencement-no-11-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006-commencement-no-11-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offences committed prior to the Commencement Date",
  "text": "(1) Where on or after the Commencement Date—\n(a) a person receives endorsements, penalty points, or a disqualification (whether as the result of court proceedings, fixed penalty notice procedures, conditional offer procedures, mutual recognition of driving disqualifications or otherwise); and\n(b) those endorsements, penalty points or disqualifications relate to conduct prior to the Commencement Date,\nthose endorsements, penalty points or disqualifications must be endorsed on that person’s driving record and not on that person’s Counterpart, Community counterpart or section 109A counterpart.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies notwithstanding anything to the contrary in a fixed penalty notice, notice under section 54(4) of the RTOA, conditional offer or other notice or documentation issued to that person in relation to that offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 54(4) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49) and by S.I. 1990/144."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/560/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:10.182985+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}