
1 
This Order may be cited as the Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.
2 
The Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Designation of Areas) Order 1992 is hereby revoked.
3 
In this Order “experimental period” has the meaning given in section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991.
4 
The following areas and districts are hereby designated for the purposes of section 31 of the Road Traffic Act 1991—
(a) the petty sessions areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(b) the districts and the commission area in Scotland specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.
5 
Those areas and districts are designated until the end of the experimental period.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
8th December 1997
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 4(a)

Petty sessional divisions of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts
 Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage
 Aldridge & Brownhills
 Appleby
 Ashford and Tenterden
 Bath and Wansdyke
 Birmingham
 Bishops Stortford
 Boston
 Bourne and Stamford
 Bournemouth and Christchurch
 Brecon
 Bridgnorth
 Bristol
 Bromsgrove and Redditch
 Burton upon Trent
 Caistor
 Cannock
 Canterbury and St. Augustine
 Cardiff
 Carlisle
 Carmarthen South
 Carmarthen North
 Central Dorset
 Ceredigion Ganol
 Cheshunt
 Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury
 Cleddau
 Corby
 Cynon Valley
 Dacorum
 Dartford
 De Ceredigion
 Deben
 Dinefwr
 Dover and East Kent
 Drayton
 Dudley
 Elloes
 Exeter
 Exmouth
 Faversham and Sittingbourne
 Folkestone and Hythe
 Forest
 Forest of Dean
 Furness and District
 Gainsborough
 Gloucester
 Gogledd Ceredigion
 Gogledd Preseli
 Grantham
 Gravesham
 Hartlepool
 Hertford and Ware
 Ipswich
 Kendal and Lonsdale
 Kennet
 Keswick
 Kettering
 Knowsley
 Lichfield
 Lincoln District
 Liverpool
 Llanelli
 Ludlow
 Machynlleth
 Maidenhead
 Maidstone
 Market Rasen
 Medway
 Mendip
 Merthyr Tydfil
 Mid Staffordshire
 Mid-Hertfordshire
 Miskin
 Neath Port Talbot
 New Forest
 Newcastle and Ogmore
 Newcastle Under Lyme and Pirehill North
 Newtown
 North Avon
 North East Suffolk
 North Gloucestershire
 North Hertfordshire
 North Sefton
 North West Hampshire
 North West Suffolk
 North Wiltshire
 Northampton
 Oswestry
 Oxford
 Penrith and Alston
 Peterborough
 Pontefract
 Poole
 Radnorshire and North Brecknock
 Reading and Sonning
 Risbridge
 Rugeley
 Sedgemoor
 Seisdon
 Sevenoaks
 Severnminster
 Shrewsbury
 Sleaford
 Slough
 Solihull
 South Gloucestershire
 South Lakes
 South Pembrokeshire
 South Sefton
 South Somerset
 South Worcestershire
 Southampton
 Spilsby and Skegness
 St. Albans
 St. Edmundsbury
 Staffordshire Moorlands
 Stoke on Trent
 Stourbridge and Halesowen
 Stow
 Sudbury and Cosford
 Sutton Coldfield
 Swansea County
 Swindon
 Tamworth
 Taunton Deane
 Telford
 Thame and Henley
 Thanet
 The Wolds
 Tonbridge and Malling
 Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook
 Vale of Glamorgan
 Wakefield
 Walsall
 Warley
 Watford
 Wellingborough
 Welshpool
 West Allerdale
 West Bromwich
 West Dorset
 West Somerset
 West Wiltshire
 Weymouth and Portland
 Whitehaven
 Wigton
 Windsor
 Ystradgynlais
Metropolitan Districts not divided into petty sessional divisions
 Barnsley
 Doncaster
 Rotherham
 Sheffield
 South Tyneside
 St. Helens
 Wirral
 Wolverhampton
Outer London Boroughs not divided into petty sessional divisions
 Bexley
 Bromley
 Croydon
Petty sessional divisions of the inner London area
 North Westminster
 South Central
 South Eastern
 South Western
 South Westminster
 Thames
 West Central
 West London

SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 4(b)

Districts
 Dumbarton Sheriff Court district
 Glasgow and Strathkelvin Sheriff Court district
 Greenock Sheriff Court district
 Hamilton Sheriff Court district
 Paisley Sheriff Court district
 Stornoway Sheriff Court district
Commission Area
 City of Glasgow District
