Legislation – Road Safety Act 2006
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Schedule 4 Paragraph 3:
- Sch. 6 para. 8A inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 3(3)
- Sch. 6 para. 10A inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 4(2)
- Sch. 6 para. 13(9) inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 4(5)
Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Act associated Parts and Chapters:
Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- Sch. 6 para. 8A inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 3(3)
- Sch. 6 para. 10A inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 4(2)
- Sch. 6 para. 13(9) inserted by 2016 c. 16 s. 4(5)
SCHEDULE 4Prohibition on driving: immobilisation, removal and disposal of vehicles
Offences connected with immobilisation etc.
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(1)
The regulations may provide that a person who fails to comply within a reasonable time with a direction under provision made under paragraph 2(1)(b) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2)
The regulations may provide that a person contravening provision made under paragraph 2(7) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
(3)
The regulations may provide that a person who, without being authorised to do so in accordance with provision made under paragraph 2, removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fixed to a vehicle in accordance with the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(4)
The regulations may provide that where they would otherwise have applied in relation to a vehicle but for provision made under paragraph 2(6)(a) and the vehicle was not, at the time at which they would otherwise have applied, being used—
(a)
in accordance with regulations under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (c. 44), and
(b)
in circumstances falling within section 117(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27) (use where a disabled person’s concession would be available),
the person in charge of the vehicle at that time is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(5)
The regulations may provide that where—
(a)
a person makes a declaration with a view to securing the release of a vehicle from an immobilisation device purported to have been fixed in accordance with the regulations,
(b)
the declaration is that the prohibition has been removed, and
(c)
the declaration is to the person’s knowledge either false or in any material respect misleading,
he is guilty of an offence.
(6)
The regulations may provide that a person guilty of an offence for which provision is made under sub-paragraph (5) is liable—
(a)
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or
(b)
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or both.