The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997

Made: 8th December 1997

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 1997

Coming into force: 31st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31(6) and (7) of the Road Traffic Act 1991¹, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Commencement and citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

Revocation

2

The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992² is hereby revoked.

Interpretation

3

In this Order “experimental period” has the meaning given in section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991³.

Designation of areas and districts

4

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.

Period of designation

5

Those areas and districts are designated until the end of the experimental period.

SCHEDULE 1 — PETTY SESSIONS AREAS

Petty sessional divisions of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts

• Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage

• Aldridge & Brownhills

• Appleby

• Ashford and Tenterden

• Bath and Wansdyke

• Birmingham

• Bishops Stortford

• Boston

• Bourne and Stamford

• Bournemouth and Christchurch

• Brecon

• Bridgnorth

• Bristol

• Bromsgrove and Redditch

• Burton upon Trent

• Caistor

• Cannock

• Canterbury and St. Augustine

• Cardiff

• Carlisle

• Carmarthen South

• Carmarthen North

• Central Dorset

• Ceredigion Ganol

• Cheshunt

• Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury

• Cleddau

• Corby

• Cynon Valley

• Dacorum

• Dartford

• De Ceredigion

• Deben

• Dinefwr

• Dover and East Kent

• Drayton

• Dudley

• Elloes

• Exeter

• Exmouth

• Faversham and Sittingbourne

• Folkestone and Hythe

• Forest

• Forest of Dean

• Furness and District

• Gainsborough

• Gloucester

• Gogledd Ceredigion

• Gogledd Preseli

• Grantham

• Gravesham

• Hartlepool

• Hertford and Ware

• Ipswich

• Kendal and Lonsdale

• Kennet

• Keswick

• Kettering

• Knowsley

• Lichfield

• Lincoln District

• Liverpool

• Llanelli

• Ludlow

• Machynlleth

• Maidenhead

• Maidstone

• Market Rasen

• Medway

• Mendip

• Merthyr Tydfil

• Mid Staffordshire

• Mid-Hertfordshire

• Miskin

• Neath Port Talbot

• New Forest

• Newcastle and Ogmore

• Newcastle Under Lyme and Pirehill North

• Newtown

• North Avon

• North East Suffolk

• North Gloucestershire

• North Hertfordshire

• North Sefton

• North West Hampshire

• North West Suffolk

• North Wiltshire

• Northampton

• Oswestry

• Oxford

• Penrith and Alston

• Peterborough

• Pontefract

• Poole

• Radnorshire and North Brecknock

• Reading and Sonning

• Risbridge

• Rugeley

• Sedgemoor

• Seisdon

• Sevenoaks

• Severnminster

• Shrewsbury

• Sleaford

• Slough

• Solihull

• South Gloucestershire

• South Lakes

• South Pembrokeshire

• South Sefton

• South Somerset

• South Worcestershire

• Southampton

• Spilsby and Skegness

• St. Albans

• St. Edmundsbury

• Staffordshire Moorlands

• Stoke on Trent

• Stourbridge and Halesowen

• Stow

• Sudbury and Cosford

• Sutton Coldfield

• Swansea County

• Swindon

• Tamworth

• Taunton Deane

• Telford

• Thame and Henley

• Thanet

• The Wolds

• Tonbridge and Malling

• Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook

• Vale of Glamorgan

• Wakefield

• Walsall

• Warley

• Watford

• Wellingborough

• Welshpool

• West Allerdale

• West Bromwich

• West Dorset

• West Somerset

• West Wiltshire

• Weymouth and Portland

• Whitehaven

• Wigton

• Windsor

• Ystradgynlais

Metropolitan Districts not divided into petty sessional divisions

• Barnsley

• Doncaster

• Rotherham

• Sheffield

• South Tyneside

• St. Helens

• Wirral

• Wolverhampton

Outer London Boroughs not divided into petty sessional divisions

• Bexley

• Bromley

• Croydon

Petty sessional divisions of the inner London area

• North Westminster

• South Central

• South Eastern

• South Western

• South Westminster

• Thames

• West Central

• West London

SCHEDULE 2 — DISTRICTS AND COMMISSION AREA IN SCOTLAND

Districts

• Dumbarton Sheriff Court district

• Glasgow and Strathkelvin Sheriff Court district

• Greenock Sheriff Court district

• Hamilton Sheriff Court district

• Paisley Sheriff Court district

• Stornoway Sheriff Court district

Commission Area

• City of Glasgow District

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Helene Hayman — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 8th December 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes and replaces with modifications the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992. Sections 34A and 34B of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 give courts in designated areas the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced, if he completes a course approved by the Secretary of State. Section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 applies those provisions during an experimental period which runs to the end of 1999.

This Order adds further areas to the list of areas designated for the purposes of section 31 of the 1991 Act by the 1992 Order. It takes account of relevant changes made under the Local Government Act 1992(c. 19).

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