The Fixed Penalty Offences (Scotland) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/466
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Fixed Penalty Offences (Scotland) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

(3) In this Order, “ the Act ” means the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

Section 2

(1) The offences in paragraph (2) of this article shall be fixed penalty offences for the purposes of Part III of the Act.

(2) The offences referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) failing to accord precedence to a foot passenger on a “Zebra” crossing in contravention of regulation 8 of the “Zebra” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations 1971 ;

(b) causing a vehicle to proceed across a “Pelican” crossing in contravention of regulation 16 of the “Pelican” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1987 ; and

(c) failing to accord precedence to a pedestrian on a “Pelican” crossing in contravention of regulation 17 of the said Regulations and General Directions of 1987.

Section 3

In consequence of the provisions of article 2 of this Order, the entry in Schedule 3 to the Act relating to section 25(5) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 shall be modified by the addition, after the word “vehicle”, of the words “other than a contravention of regulation 8 of the “Zebra” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations 1971 or of regulation 16 or 17 of the “Pelican” Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1987”.