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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-financial-penalty-deposit-appropriate-amount-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/492",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-financial-penalty-deposit-appropriate-amount-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 31st March 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the AETR” means the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport of 1 July 1970, as amended, as applied by article 2(3)of the EC Regulation;\n...\n“the EC Regulation” means the Community Drivers Hours Regulation as defined in section 103(1) of the Transport Act 1968;\n“the EU Tachographs Regulation” has the meaning given in section 97(7) of the Transport Act 1968;\n“fixed penalty offence” means an offence listed in Schedule 1; and\n“graduated fixed penalty offence” means an offence listed in Schedule 2.\n“parking offence” means—\n(a)in relation to table 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 1, an offence under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, which does not involve obligatory endorsement and which is committed in respect of a stationary vehicle; or\n(b)in relation to table 6 in Schedule 2, an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 consisting in the causing of an unnecessary obstruction of a road in breach of regulation 103 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986;\n“red route” means a length of road affected by either or both of the following traffic signs, namely—\n(a)a traffic sign lawfully placed on the road, being a traffic sign which bears the words “Red Route”, with or without any other word or any sign or other indication; and\n(b)a traffic sign consisting of a red line or mark lawfully placed on the road; and\n“traffic sign” means a traffic sign for the purposes of section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 which conveys any restriction or prohibition under an order made under that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) omitted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) inserted (2.3.2016) by virtue of The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) inserted (2.10.2014) by The Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2766), arts. 1(1), 2(2) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 31.3.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd 7401. Amendments are published in Cmnd 8572, Cmnd 9037, Cm 1776, Cm 3042 and Cm 3135. A consolidated version of the Agreement, including all amendments, is available from http://www.unece.org/trans/doc/2006/sc1/ECE-TRANS-SC1-2006-02e.pdf."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 103(1) was amended by S.I. 2007/1819; there are other amendments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1968 c.73. Section 97 was substituted by S.I. 1979/1746 and subsection (7) was further amended by S.I. 2005/1904, 2006/1117 and 2006/3276."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/492/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}