{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Penalty points: modification where fixed penalty also in question.",
  "text": "(1) Sections 28 and 29 of this Act shall have effect subject to this section in any case where—\n(a) a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory endorsement, and\n(b) the court is satisfied that ... his driving record has been or is liable to be endorsed under section 57A or 77A of this Act in respect of an offence (referred to in this section as the “ connected offence ”) committed on the same occasion as the offence of which he is convicted.\n(2) . . . the number of penalty points to be attributed to the offence of which he is convicted is—\n(a) the number of penalty points to be attributed to that offence under section 28of this Act apart from this section, less\n(b) the number of penalty points required to be endorsed ...on his driving record under section 57A or 77A of this Act in respect of the connected offence (except so far as they have already been deducted by virtue of this paragraph).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 30 repealed (S.) (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(a) substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 92(2); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(b) repealed (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 36(2)(a), Sch. 7(4); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3 (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(a); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 30(1)(b) substituted (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 36(2)(b); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3(a) (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(b); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(2) repealed (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), ss. 48, 83, Sch. 4 para. 92(3)(a), Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 30(2)(a) substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 92(3)(b); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(2)(b) repealed (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 36(3)(a), Sch. 7(4); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3 (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 5(3)(a); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in s. 30(2)(b) substituted (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 36(3)(b); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3(a) (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 5(3)(b); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(2)(b) added (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991(c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 92(3)(c); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 30(3) repealed (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), ss. 48, 83, Sch. 4 para. 92(4), Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:29.437010+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."
}