Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 294
Road Traffic
The Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order 2017
Made
6th March 2017
Laid before Parliament
13th March 2017
Coming into force
5th April 2017
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order 2017 and comes into force on 5th April 2017.
Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988
2. In section 20(2) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (speeding offences etc : admissibility of certain evidence)—
(a) after paragraph (b) insert—
“ (ba) an offence under subsection (4) of section 17 of that Act consisting in a contravention of regulation 9 of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 ( 2 ) (restriction on the use of hard shoulders) by the driving of a vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway; ” ; and
(b) after paragraph (e) insert—
“ (ea) an offence under section 36(1) of that Act consisting in the failure to comply with an indication given by a light signal to vehicular traffic not to enter, or proceed in, a traffic lane; ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
John Hayes
Minister of State
Department for Transport
6th March 2017
1988 c.53 ; section 20 was substituted by section 23 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40) . There are other amendments to section 20 which are not relevant to these Regulations.
S.I. 1982/1163 ; regulation 9 was amended by S.I. 2015/392 .