Road Traffic Act 2016
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Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act - consequential disqualification | ||
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21. (1) The Principal Act is amended— | ||
(a) in section 26(4)(a) (as amended by section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2014 ), by substituting for subparagraph (v) the following: | ||
“(v) section 12, 13B, 14 or 17A of the Road Traffic Act 2010 , or”, | ||
(b) by inserting after section 26(4)(b) (as amended by section 50 of the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012) the following: | ||
“(ba) The period of disqualification specified in a consequential disqualification order shall, where the person to whom the order relates is convicted of an offence under section 4 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 consisting of a contravention of subsection (1A) of that section or an offence under subsection (1A) of section 5 of that Act, be— | ||
(i) not less than 1 year, in the case of a first offence under the section concerned, and | ||
(ii) not less than 2 years, in the case of— | ||
(I) a second or subsequent offence under the same section, or | ||
(II) a first offence under that section, where the person has been previously convicted of an offence under the other section.”, | ||
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(c) in the Second Schedule (as amended by section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2014 ), by substituting for paragraph 6 the following: | ||
“(6) An offence under section 12 , 13B or 14 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 .”. |