The Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order 2017

• Citation: S.I. 2017/294
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences) Order 2017 and comes into force on 5th April 2017.

Section 2 Amendment of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988

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 (restriction on the use of hard shoulders) by the driving of a vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway;

(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;