Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 345

The Fixed Penalty Offences Order 1992

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1992 No. 345

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, SCOTLAND

The Fixed Penalty Offences Order 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 51(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988^[1], and after consultation with the organisations mentined in section 88(2) of that Act, I hereby make the following Order:

    1.    This order may be cited as the Fixed Penalty Offences Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

    2.    The offence under section 15(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988^[2] of driving a motor vehicle in contravention of section 15(3) of that Act shall be a fixed penalty offence and, in consequence, the entry in Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988^[3] relating to the Road Traffic Act 1988 shall be modified by the insertion, after the entry relating to section 15(2) of the Road traffic Act 1988, of the words "RTA section 15(4)" in column (1) and "Breach of restriction on carrying children in the rear of vehicles" in column (2).

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home office

21st February 1992

This Order provides for the offence of driving a motor vehicle in breach of the restriction in section 15(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 on carrying children not wearing seat belts in the rear of vehicles to be a fixed penalty offence and makes consequential modifications to Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, which specifies offences which are fixed penalty offences for purposes of that Act.

[1] 1988 c. 53. back

[2] 1988 c. 52. back

[3] Schedule 3 was amended by S.I. 1990/335. back