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3(1)Section 54 (notices on-the-spot or at a police station) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1), after “uniform” insert “, or a vehicle examiner who produces his authority,”.
(3)In subsection (2), after “constable” insert “or vehicle examiner”.
(4)In subsection (3), after “constable”, in each place, insert “or vehicle examiner”.
(5)In subsection (4)—
(a)after “constable”, in the first three places, insert “or vehicle examiner”,
(b)for “, within seven days after the notice is given, he produces” substitute “he delivers”, and
(c)for the words from “person to” to “person concerned)” substitute “accordance with subsection (4A) below”.
(6)After that subsection insert—
“(4A)Delivery must—
(a)if the notice is given by a constable, be made in person, within seven days after the notice is given, to a constable or authorised person at the police station specified in the notice (being a police station chosen by the person concerned), or
(b)if the notice is given by a vehicle examiner, be made (either by post or in person), within fourteen days after the notice is given, to the Secretary of State at the place specified in the notice.”
(7)In subsection (5)—
(a)for “produces” substitute “delivers”,
(b)for the words from “person to a” to “to him” substitute “accordance with subsection (4A) above”,
(c)in paragraph (a) and in the words following paragraph (b), for “constable or authorised person” substitute “person to whom the notice under subsection (4) above is delivered”,
(d)omit “he surrenders”, and
(e)for “to the constable or authorised person” substitute “are delivered”.
(8)In subsection (7)—
(a)after “surrendered” insert “or delivered”, and
(b)insert at the end “if the fixed penalty notice was given by a constable or authorised person”.
(9)In the heading, for “or at a police station” substitute “etc.”
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