{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-90H",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-90H.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/90H",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90H",
  "heading": "Power to prevent courses being offered for repeat offences: England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations prohibit a chief officer from offering an approved course to a person as an alternative to prosecution in England and Wales for a specified fixed penalty offence where—\n(a) there is a course fee, and\n(b) the person has, within a period specified in the regulations, satisfactorily completed a similar approved course in respect of an earlier specified fixed penalty offence.\n(2) The regulations must include provision for the purpose of identifying what counts as a “similar” course; and that provision may, in particular, confer power on a person to determine what courses count as similar.\n(3) In this section “chief officer” means—\n(a) a chief officer of police of a police force in England and Wales, or\n(b) the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police Force.\n(4) In this section the following terms have the meaning given by section 90G(5)—\n“approved course”;\n“prosecution”;\n“specified fixed penalty offence”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3B inserted (26.10.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 89(1), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1075, reg. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/90H",
    "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."
}