Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2913

The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 2913

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997

	Made	8th December 1997
	Laid before Parliament	10th December 1997
	Coming into force	31st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31(6) and (7) of the Road Traffic Act 1991[1], and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: - 

Commencement and citation
    1.This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

Revocation
    2.The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992[2] is hereby revoked.

Interpretation
    3.In this Order "experimental period" has the meaning given in section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991[3].

Designation of areas and districts
    4.The following areas and districts are hereby designated for the purposes of section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 - 

(a) the petty sessions areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) the districts and the commission area in Scotland specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Period of designation
    5.Those areas and districts are designated until the end of the experimental period.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

8th December 1997

SCHEDULE 1Regulation 4(a)


PETTY SESSIONS AREAS

Petty sessional divisions of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts

Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage

Aldridge & Brownhills

Appleby

Ashford and Tenterden

Bath and Wansdyke

Birmingham

Bishops Stortford

Boston

Bourne and Stamford

Bournemouth and Christchurch

Brecon

Bridgnorth

Bristol

Bromsgrove and Redditch

Burton upon Trent

Caistor

Cannock

Canterbury and St. Augustine

Cardiff

Carlisle

Carmarthen South

Carmarthen North

Central Dorset

Ceredigion Ganol

Cheshunt

Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury

Cleddau

Corby

Cynon Valley

Dacorum

Dartford

De Ceredigion

Deben

Dinefwr

Dover and East Kent

Drayton

Dudley

Elloes

Exeter

Exmouth

Faversham and Sittingbourne

Folkestone and Hythe

Forest

Forest of Dean

Furness and District

Gainsborough

Gloucester

Gogledd Ceredigion

Gogledd Preseli

Grantham

Gravesham

Hartlepool

Hertford and Ware

Ipswich

Kendal and Lonsdale

Kennet

Keswick

Kettering

Knowsley

Lichfield

Lincoln District

Liverpool

Llanelli

Ludlow

Machynlleth

Maidenhead

Maidstone

Market Rasen

Medway

Mendip

Merthyr Tydfil

Mid Staffordshire

Mid-Hertfordshire

Miskin

Neath Port Talbot

New Forest

Newcastle and Ogmore

Newcastle Under Lyme and Pirehill North

Newtown

North Avon

North East Suffolk

North Gloucestershire

North Hertfordshire

North Sefton

North West Hampshire

North West Suffolk

North Wiltshire

Northampton

Oswestry

Oxford

Penrith and Alston

Peterborough

Pontefract

Poole

Radnorshire and North Brecknock

Reading and Sonning

Risbridge

Rugeley

Sedgemoor

Seisdon

Sevenoaks

Severnminster

Shrewsbury

Sleaford

Slough

Solihull

South Gloucestershire

South Lakes

South Pembrokeshire

South Sefton

South Somerset

South Worcestershire

Southampton

Spilsby and Skegness

St. Albans

St. Edmundsbury

Staffordshire Moorlands

>Stoke on Trent

Stourbridge and Halesowen

Stow

Sudbury and Cosford

Sutton Coldfield

Swansea County

Swindon

Tamworth

Taunton Deane

Telford

Thame and Henley

Thanet

The Wolds

Tonbridge and Malling

Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook

Vale of Glamorgan

Wakefield

Walsall

Warley

Watford

Wellingborough

Welshpool

West Allerdale

West Bromwich

West Dorset

West Somerset

West Wiltshire

Weymouth and Portland

Whitehaven

Wigton

Windsor

Ystradgynlais

Metropolitan Districts not divided into petty sessional divisions

Barnsley

Doncaster

Rotherham

Sheffield

South Tyneside

St. Helens

Wirral

Wolverhampton

Outer London Boroughs not divided into petty sessional divisions

Bexley

Bromley

Croydon

Petty sessional divisions of the inner London area

North Westminster

South Central

South Eastern

South Western

South Westminster

Thames

West Central

West London

SCHEDULE 2Regulation 4(b)


DISTRICTS AND COMMISSION AREA IN SCOTLAND

Districts

Dumbarton Sheriff Court district

Glasgow and Strathkelvin Sheriff Court district

Greenock Sheriff Court district

Hamilton Sheriff Court district

Paisley Sheriff Court district

Stornoway Sheriff Court district

Commission Area

City of Glasgow District

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes and replaces with modifications the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992. Sections 34A and 34B of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 give courts in designated areas the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced, if he completes a course approved by the Secretary of State. Section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 applies those provisions during an experimental period which runs to the end of 1999.

This Order adds further areas to the list of areas designated for the purposes of section 31 of the 1991 Act by the 1992 Order. It takes account of relevant changes made under the Local Government Act 1992(c. 19).

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Notes:

[1] 1991 c. 40.back

[2] S.I. 1992/3014.back

[3] The "experimental period" was extended by the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/949).back

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ISBN 0 11 065249 5

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