The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992

Made: 2nd December 1992

Laid before Parliament: 3rd December 1992

Coming into force: 24th December 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31(4) and (6) of the Road Traffic Act 1991[^f00001] and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 24th December 1992.

2

The following areas and districts are hereby designated for the purposes of section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991—

• (a) the petty sessions areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

• (b) the districts and the commission area in Scotland specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

SCHEDULE 1 — PETTY SESSIONS AREAS

Petty sessional divisions of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts

• Birmingham

• Carmarthen South

• Carmarthen North

• Corby

• Exeter

• Exmouth

• Felixstowe

• Hartlepool

• Lincoln District

• Maidenhead

• Maidstone

• Medway

• Newcastle and Ogmore

• Shrewsbury

• Southampton

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Swindon

• Taunton Deane

• West Allerdale

• Woodbridge

Metropolitan districts not divided into petty sessional divisions

• Sheffield

• South Tyneside

• Wolverhampton

Outer London borough not divided into petty sessional divisions

• Bromley

Petty sessional divisions of the inner London area

• South Central

• South Westminster

SCHEDULE 2 — DISTRICTS AND COMMISSION AREA IN SCOTLAND

Districts

• Glasgow and Strathkelvin Sheriff Court District

• Stornoway Sheriff Court District

Commission area

• City of Glasgow District

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kenneth Carlisle — Parliamentary under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 2nd December 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Sections 34A and 34B of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53), which were inserted by section 30 of the Road Traffic Act 1991, give courts power to order that the period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence is to be reduced if he completes a course approved by the Secretary of State. Section 31 of the 1991 Act applies those provisions with modification during an experimental period. In particular, during the experimental period, orders can be made only by courts acting for designated areas.

This Order designates areas for the purposes of section 31 of the 1991 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1991 c. 40.