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Background to the Scheme |
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the end of the 1980s, the Government commissioned a review of UK road
traffic laws. One of the main recommendations of the Review
Committee was for a large-scale experiment, using training courses to help
drivers who had committed drink driving offences.
The terms of the trial were defined in the 1991 Road
Traffic Act, and the experiment started in 1993 in 19 Courts across the
UK. Drivers convicted of drink drive offences could obtain a
reduction of up to 25% in their ban, in return for attending a
rehabilitation course. | |
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The aim of the course was to provide drink drive
offenders with a period of guided reflection, within a group environment,
enabling future non-offending behaviour to be developed. | |
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of the experimental scheme, by the Transport Research Laboratory, showed
that those attending courses were nearly 60% less likely to
re-offend. This clear indication of the success of the project
resulted in an order, on 31 December 1999, which made the scheme permanent
and, at the same time, made it available in all Courts throughout the UK
dealing with Drink Drive offences or the appeal resulting from a Drink
Drive case Heard at a Lower Court. | |
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appointment of training providers, and the courses which they run, is
administered by the Department for Transport. | |
The DfT's role includes:
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