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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 1254

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, SCOTLAND

The Fixed Penalty (Amendment) Order 2003

  Made 8th May 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 8th May 2003 
  Coming into force 1st June 2003 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 53 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988[1], and after consultation in accordance with section 88(2) of that Act with such representative organisations as he thinks fit, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Fixed Penalty (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st June 2003.

    (2) This Order applies in relation to a fixed penalty offence alleged to have been committed on or after 1st June 2003.

Amendment of the Fixed Penalty Order 2000
     2. The table in the Schedule to this Order shall be substituted for the fixed penalties table in the Schedule to the Fixed Penalty Order 2000[2].



SCHEDULE
Article 2


FIXED PENALTIES


(1) (2)
Offence Fixed Penalty
A fixed penalty offence under section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[3] £200
A fixed penalty offence under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[4] £120
Any other fixed penalty offence involving obligatory endorsement £60
A fixed penalty parking offence committed in Greater London on a red route £60
Any other fixed penalty parking offence committed in Greater London £40
A fixed penalty offence under section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[5] £60
A fixed penalty offence under section 33 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994[6] £60
Any other fixed penalty offence £30




Bob Ainsworth
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office
8th May 2003


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Fixed Penalty Order 2000, which prescribes fixed penalties for fixed penalty offences. The Fixed Penalty Order 2000 is amended by replacing the fixed penalties table in the Schedule to that Order with the table in the Schedule to this Order.

Three offences and their penalties are added to the fixed penalties table. These are a fixed penalty offence under section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 with a penalty of £200; a fixed penalty offence under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 with a penalty of £120; a fixed penalty offence under section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 with a penalty of £60. The existing fixed penalty offence under section 33 of the Vehicle and Excise Registration Act 1994 is amended in this table to provide for a penalty of £60.

Notes:

 [1] 1988 c. 53. Section 53 was substituted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 27), section 48 and paragraph 102 ofback

[2] S.I. 2000/2792back

[3] 1988 c. 52. Section 143 was amended by regulations 2(1) and (2) of the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/726).back

[4] 1988 c. 52. Section 172 was substituted by the Road Traffic Act 1991(c. 27), section 21 and was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22), section 63 and paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 3.back

[5] 1988 c. 52. Section 47 was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22), section 63 and paragraphs 24(2)(a), (b) and (c) of Schedule 3 and the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), section 5 and paragraphs 25 and 29 of Schedule 2.back

[6] 1994 c. 22. Section 33 was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 23 and paragraph 10 of Schedule 2; the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), section 18 and paragraphs 4(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of Schedule 3, and the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), section 19(1) and paragraphs 1 and 10 of Schedule 5.back


ISBN 0 11 046045 6


 
© Crown copyright 2003
Prepared 19 May 2003

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