[34D Reduced disqualification period: alcohol ignition interlock programme orders]
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (1988 c 53) | Legislation

[34D  Reduced disqualification period: alcohol ignition interlock programme orders]

[(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a person is convicted of a relevant drink offence by or before a court,

(b)     he has committed another relevant drink offence at any time during the period of ten years ending with the date of the conviction,

(c)     the court makes an order under section 34 of this Act but does not make an order under section 34A of this Act, and

(d)     the period stated by the court as that for which, apart from this section [and disregarding any extension period added pursuant to section 35A or 35C], he would be disqualified (“the unreduced period”) is not less than two years.

(2)     In this section “relevant drink offence” means—

(a)     an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (causing death by careless driving when unfit to drive through drink) committed when unfit to drive through drink,

(b)     an offence under paragraph (b) of that subsection (causing death by careless driving with excess alcohol),

(c)     an offence under paragraph (c) of that subsection (failing to provide a specimen) where the specimen is required in connection

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