The much-heralded new Road Safety Bill has been tabled in Parliament, and is now available on the parliamentary website.
For the lay reader, the best place to start is the explanatory notes: tinyurl.com/6qctd
The full text of the Bill is at tinyurl.com/47jh7 (HTML version) or tinyurl.com/5x4yc (PDF version)
The Dep For Transport press release is at: tinyurl.com/44yuf
A few quick points on what I spotted in a quick scan of the Bill:
* Clauses 2-3 deal with "graduated fixed penalties" and "graduated fixed penalty points". They don't prescribe the actual level of penalties (that's to be done afterwards by regulations), they just set out the principle of graduated penalties.
* Clause 16 changes the range of fixed-penalty points to 2-6
* I can't find any sign of any power to require prosecution at any given speed threshold. In other words (unless I've missed it), police forces will remain free to choose to prosecute only when the limits are significantly exceeded, as per current ACPO guidelines.
* Clause 17 bans "Speed assessment equipment detection devices" (i.e. Road Angel etc)
* There are a lot of provisions about drink-driving, including Clause 14, which gives the courts power to require a driver to use an "alcohol ignition interlock" when the technology becomes available
* Clause 24 allows courts to offer a discount of up to 3 penalty points in certain circumstances where the driver agrees to attend a course, and completes it; it also allows for reduced periods of disqualification if drivers attend courses
* Clause 29 gives the Secretary of Stae power to requitre the surrender of old-style driving licenses (i.e. those which are not photocards)
* Clause 38 allows for disclosure to foreign authorities of licensing and registration information
There's a whole lot else in there, some of which I can't understand because it amends other legislation -- but I hope I've got some of the main points which will interst backroomers.
Those who carry radiocative material in their cars should note that Clause 43 amends the relevant rules, though I'm not clear exactly how :)
Hope this is useful!
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Clause 17
Road Angel devices are NOT covered and hence legal.
?speed assessment equipment detection device? means a
device the purpose, or one of the purposes, of which is
to detect, or interfere with the operation of, equipment
used to assess the speed of motor vehicles.?
Those equiped with detection devices (Probably covers the optional plug in radar and laser detectors) are probably illegal so if you remove that optional feature from your Road Angel or B2 then it is prefectly legal.
Good informative post BTW NW! thanks
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what about speed assessment equipment JAMMING devices??
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re "Secretary of Stae power to requitre the surrender of old-style driving licenses (i.e. those which are not photocards)
" im keeping the licence i got on my 17th birthday till i need a medical at 70, are they really going to clog the courts up with this nonsense?
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Perhaps another way of making us have the new 'voluntary' ID cards as well as them replacing passports and slowly becoming a requirement for banking.
When I suggested this agenda on a previous thread someone suggested that this 'requires joined up thinking, which this lot don't do', perhaps they're learning!
The real danger of the new photo card licences, and, from what I can see, all these cards need replacing every so many years, presumably because we age and change appearance but they are only replaced at a cost of course. A cost which will no doubt increase over the years to raise a little more revenue.
Cockle
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think ill go and get a US passport, pop across the channel every 3 months, no need to register here, will never get done for speeding, will never need to be on blunkets database
makes sense to me
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>>>>>>think ill go and get a US passport, pop across the channel every 3 months, no need to register here, will never get done for speeding, will never need to be on blunkets database
US would be a difficult one, plus their taxation is terrible, they stick you for tax over $85k p.a. anywhere globally.but there are lots of alternatives, cheaper and easier:
www.escapeartist.com/passports/passports.htm and others. Expats here are thoroughly up in arms about this further intrusion on personal liberty, which is why we are of course all expats!
I live overseas and once I have divested myself of my UK property I shall have no ties and no reason to live in or visit The Great People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Britain, so they can go whistle Dixie if they want me to get an ID card.
Means I probably won't get my piffling pension but so what.
Motoring: they can keep my licence anyway, I've got four others.
Right now I've got a Signal 1 typhoon on the way so time to get out the sandbags, gas up the generator and move upstairs before it's Beer O'Clock.
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yea US probably a bad example, but you know what i mean
would be no probs for me to get quite a few passports legally
think blunketts picking on the wrong people, all driven by stupid consultancies that want to make lots of dosh out of ID cards, many with labour connections
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Yes, thanks NW.
Looks like I'll have to review my policy re radioactive material.
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Switch to banana skins and other household refuse to fuel your flux capacitor (but keep your speed down.....)
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"... other household refuse ..."
... like used cooking oil converted into biodiesel?
Never realised I was driving a car of the future! Mind you, apart from fuel consumption approaching that of a sparker (39 mpg!), nothing unusual seems to happen at 88 mph.
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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I see that this was one of the bills which has had to be dropped due to the election. Hwever I think it will be re-raised in the new Parliament.
tinyurl.com/6ng4e
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