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Just zis Guy, you know? <
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> I now have the text of the egregious Bill. It's linked from here:
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<http://chapmancentral.demon.co.uk/Web/public.nsf/Documents/Martlew_Bill>
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> Sorry about the scan quality.
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> Guy
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> May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
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http://chapmancentral.demon.co.uk
by the miracles of OCR:
Protective headgear for young cyclists A bill to Make provision for the wearing of protective
headgear by children while riding cycles; to prescribe offences and penalties, and for connected
purposes. Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
1. Causing or permitting child under 16 to ride a cycle on road without protective headgear
(2) Except as provided by regulations, it is an offence for any person to whom this
subsection applies to cause or permit a child under the age of 16 years to ride a cycle-
(a) on a road;
(b) in any park, garden or recreation ground to which the public have access without payment,
unless the child is wearing protective headgear, of such description as may be specified in
regulations, in such manner as may be so specified.
(2) Subsection (I) above applies to the following persons-
(a) any person who -
(b) for the purposes of Part I of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (e.12),
has responsibility for the child; or (ii) for the purposes of Part II of the
Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (c. 37) has parental
responsibilities (within the meaning given by section
1(3) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.36) in relation to, or has charge or
care of the child;
(b) any owner of the cycle, if the owner is above the age of 15 years;
(c) any person other than its owner who has custody of or is in possession of the cycle immediately
before the child rides it if that person is above the age of 15 years;
(d) where the child is employed, his employer and any other person to whose orders the
child is subject in the course of his employment.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) above is liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
4. Regulations
(5) The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument
(a) Provide that section 1 of this Act shall not apply in relation to children of any
prescribed description, or in relation to the riding of cycles in such
circumstances as may be prescribed;
(b) prescribe for the purposes of that section (by reference to shape, construction or any other
quality) the descriptions of protective headgear to be worn by children of any prescribed
description in prescribed circumstances; and
(c) prescribe for those purposes the manner in which such headgear is to be worn
(2) Any statutory instrument containing regulations under this section shall be Parliament.
3. Interpretation
(4) In this Act- "cycle" has the meaning given by section 192(1) of the Road Traffic
Act 1988(c.53); "regulations" means regulations under section 2 of this Act; and
"road" has -
(a) in England and Wales, the meaning given by section
192(1) of the. 4 Short title, commencement and extent
(193) This Act may be cited as the Protective Headgear for Young Cyclists Act 2004.
(194) This Act, apart from this section, shall not come into force until such day as the Secretary
of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
(195) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
