Road Traffic Act 2016

Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act - consequential disqualification

21. (1) The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 26(4)(a) (as amended by section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2014 ), by substituting for subparagraph (v) the following:

“(v) section 12, 13B, 14 or 17A of the Road Traffic Act 2010 , or”,

(b) by inserting after section 26(4)(b) (as amended by section 50 of the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012) the following:

“(ba) The period of disqualification specified in a consequential disqualification order shall, where the person to whom the order relates is convicted of an offence under section 4 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 consisting of a contravention of subsection (1A) of that section or an offence under subsection (1A) of section 5 of that Act, be—

(i) not less than 1 year, in the case of a first offence under the section concerned, and

(ii) not less than 2 years, in the case of—

(I) a second or subsequent offence under the same section, or

(II) a first offence under that section, where the person has been previously convicted of an offence under the other section.”,

and

(c) in the Second Schedule (as amended by section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2014 ), by substituting for paragraph 6 the following:

“(6) An offence under section 12 , 13B or 14 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 .”.