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Make provision for roadside testing for illegal drugs; and for connected |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Amendment of the Road Traffic Act 1988 |
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(1) | The Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) is amended as follows. |
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(2) | In section 6C (preliminary drug test), after subsection (1) insert— |
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“(1A) | The Secretary of State must approve a device for administering a |
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preliminary drug test, as referred to in subsection (1)(b), within twelve |
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months of the passing of the Drugs (Roadside Testing) Act 2008.” |
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2 | Amendment of Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 |
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(1) | Part 1 (offences under the Traffic Acts) of Schedule 2 (prosecution and |
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punishment of offences) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53) is |
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(2) | In column 5 (disqualification) of the the row relating to RTA section 4(1), after |
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“Obligatory” insert “, and in respect of drugs-related offences commited within |
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three years after a previous conviction of an offence under RTA section 4, for a |
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minimum period of twelve months for a first such offence and two years for |
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any subsequent such offence”. |
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3 | Short title, commencement and extent |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Drugs (Roadside Testing) Act 2008. |
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(2) | This Act comes into force at the end of a period of three months beginning on |
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the day on which this Act is passed. |
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(3) | This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. |
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