Schedule 2 - Endorsement: unlicensed and foreign drivers
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
9:45 am
Stephen Hammond (Shadow Minister, Transport; Wimbledon, Conservative)
I understand that clause 9 will enact schedule 2. There has been much clarification from the Minister, for which I am grateful, but I have just a couple of questions. Paragraph 6 of the schedule relates to people who will be disqualified if they have a fixed penalty notice served on them. Am I right in thinking that in all circumstances they would then be referred to the court and that there is no situation in which they could accept the fixed penalty notice, be disqualified and have their 12-month ban start then? Am I right in thinking that, in all circumstances, if people are served with a fixed penalty notice that takes them to 12 points under the totting up system, they would have to go to court?
Secondly, under proposed new section 84A, I should like to be reassured that the
“particulars as the Secretary of State may determine”
are exactly those about which we sought reassurance in the stand part debate. Does the Minister anticipate any circumstances where those particulars might differ under this schedule?