Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if—

before the commencement, and within the relevant period, the driver of a motor vehicle—

has been charged with having committed type 2 vehicle related offences of different kinds on 1 or more previous occasions within the relevant period; and

for each of the charges mentioned in subparagraph (i)—

the charge has not been decided; or

the driver has been found guilty; and

after the commencement, the driver is charged with having committed a type 2 vehicle related offence of a different kind from a type 2 vehicle related offence mentioned in paragraph (a)(i).

A police officer may not impound a motor vehicle under section 74C, 74D or 74E of the post-amended Act on the basis that the driver has been charged with, or found guilty of, having committed a type 2 offence mentioned in subsection (1)(a)(i).

For this section, a type 2 vehicle related offence is of a different kind to another type 2 vehicle related offence if each offence is described in a different paragraph of the definition of type 2 vehicle related offence in section 69A(2).

In this section—relevant period, for a person who has been charged with, or found guilty of, having committed a type 2 vehicle related offence before the commencement, means the period of not more than 3 years before a type 2 vehicle related offence the person is charged with having committed after the commencement.