The Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2011

Made: 12th April 2011

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 61 of the Road Safety Act 2006[^f00001].

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No.7) Order 2011.

Provisions coming into force

2

The following provisions of the Road Safety Act 2006 shall come into force on 16th May 2011—

• (a) section 22(4);

• (b) section 22(6) to the extent to which it relates to subsection (8); and

• (c) section 22(8) to the extent to which it relates to paragraph 2(1) to (3) of Schedule 2A to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988[^f00002].

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Mike Penning — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 12th April 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force on 16th May 2011 section 22 (4) of the Road Safety Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) (article 2) which amends the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”).

Section 22(6) of the 2006 Act is brought into force only to the extent to which it relates to section 22(8).

Section 22(8) is brought into force only to the extent to which it relates to offences made by virtue of paragraph 2(1) to (3) of Schedule 2A to the Road Traffic Act 1988 (“RTA”).

Section 22 of the 2006 Act relates to the offence of keeping a vehicle which does not meet the insurance requirements.

Section 22(4) provides the level of penalty for offences made by regulation under section 160 of the RTA by virtue of Schedule 2A to that Act.

Section 22(8) provides for the mode of prosecution and specifies the penalties in respect of those provisions of regulations under Schedule 2A to the RTA, contravention of or failure to comply with which is an offence, namely: removing or interfering with an immobilisation notice; removing or attempting to remove an immobilisation device and wrongfully displaying a disabled person’s badge.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c.49.

[^f00002]: 1988 c.53; Schedule 2A was inserted by the Road Safety Act 2006, section 22(3).

[^f00003]: Section 49A was inserted by section 129 of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26).

[^f00004]: Section 49B was inserted by section 130 of the Local Transport Act 2008.