The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) Order 1997
Section 31(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 provides that no order shall be made under section 34A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (which provides that courts acting for designated areas have the power to order that a period of disqualification imposed on a person convicted of a drink-drive offence be reduced if by a date specified in the order, the offender satisfactorily completes a course approved by the Secretary of State) after the end of 1997 or such later date as may be specified. This Order specifies the end of 1999 in place of the end of 1997.