40 Power of appellate courts in England and Wales to suspend disqualification
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (1988 c 53) | Legislation

40  Power of appellate courts in England and Wales to suspend disqualification

(1)     This section applies where a person has been convicted by or before a court in England and Wales of an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification and has been ordered to be disqualified; and in the following provisions of this section—

(a)     any reference to a person ordered to be disqualified is to be construed as a reference to a person so convicted and so ordered to be disqualified, and

(b)     any reference to his sentence includes a reference to the order of disqualification and to any other order made on his conviction and, accordingly, any reference to an appeal against his sentence includes a reference to an

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