
1 
This Order may be cited as the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1999 and shall come into operation on 4th May 1999.
2 
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1985 is hereby revoked.
3 

(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, proceedings for the offences mentioned in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of section 3 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (which, amongst other things, places a duty on the Director of Public Prosecutions to take over the conduct of all criminal proceedings, other than specified proceedings, instituted on behalf of a police force).
(2) Where a summons has been issued in respect of an offence mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, proceedings for that offence cease to be specified when the summons is served on the accused unless the documents described in section 12(3)(b) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (pleading guilty by post etc.) are served upon the accused with the summons.
(3) Proceedings for an offence cease to be specified if at any time a magistrates' court begins to receive evidence in those proceedings; and for the purpose of this paragraph nothing read out before the court under section 12(7) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 shall be regarded as evidence.
John Monroe
Her Majesty’s Attorney General
18th March 1999
SCHEDULE
Article 3
1 
Fixed penalty offences within the meaning of section 51(1) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
2 
The offences under section 29(1) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.
3 
The offences under sections 17(2), 18(3), 24(3), 26(1) and (2), 29, 31(1), 42(b), 47(1), 87(2), 143, 164(6) and (9), 165(3) and (6), 168 and 172(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
4 
All offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 other than those under sections 35A(2), 43(5) and (12), 47(3), 52(1), 108(3), 115(1) and (2), 116(1) and 129(3) or those mentioned in paragraph 1 above.
5 
The offences arising by contravention of Regulations 3(9)(a) (involving a pedal cycle) and 3(9)(b) and 4(27), (28) and (30) of the Royal and Other Open Spaces Regulations 1997.