35 Disqualification for repeated offences

35  Disqualification for repeated offences

(1)     Where—

(a)     a person is convicted of an offence [to which this subsection applies], and

(b)     the penalty points to be taken into account on the occasion number twelve or more,

the court must order him to be disqualified for not less than the minimum period unless the court is satisfied, having regard to all the circumstances, that there are grounds for mitigating the normal consequences of the conviction and thinks fit to order him to be disqualified for a shorter period or not to order him to be disqualified.

[(1A)     Subsection (1) above applies to—

(a)     an offence involving discretionary disqualification and obligatory endorsement, and

(b)     an offence involving obligatory disqualification in respect of which no order is made under section 34 of this Act.]

(2)     The minimum period referred to in subsection (1) above is—

(a)     six months if no previous disqualification imposed

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