Road Traffic Act 2010
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Transitional provision — consequential disqualification orders. |
66.— (1) Section 26 (inserted by section 26 of the Act of 1994) of the Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (4)(a) (inserted by section 6 of the Act of 2006) by substituting for subparagraph (iii) the following: | ||
“(iii) section 52 or 53, tried on indictment,”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by substituting for subsection (5) the following: | ||
“(5) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), 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 52 or 53 tried summarily or under section 56, be not less than 2 years in the case of a first offence under the section concerned and not less than 4 years in the case of a second or any subsequent offence under the same section committed within the period of 3 years from the date of the commission of the previous offence or, in the case of more than one such offence, the last such offence. | ||
(b) Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 52 tried summarily or under section 56, the court may, in the case of a first offence under the section concerned, where it is satisfied that a special reason (which it shall specify when making its order) has been proved by the convicted person to exist in his or her particular case to justify such a course— | ||
(i) decline to make a consequential disqualification order, or | ||
(ii) specify a period of disqualification in the consequential disqualification order of less than 1 year.”. | ||
(2) This section stands repealed upon the commencement of section 65 (1). |