Isle of Man Guide

The Department of Infrastructure is seeking the public’s views on legislative proposals contained within the Road Traffic and Highways (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. The provisions contained within the Bill have been developed from proposals which were included in the Department's Road Safety Initiative of 2004 that received a broadly favourable public response.

Minister for Infrastructure Phil Gawne MHK said:

"the proposals contained within the Road Traffic and Highways (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill affect the Road Traffic Act 1985, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1985, The Highways Act 1986 and various Miscellaneous Amendments and Repeals. The following highlights the main proposals:

1. To create four new driving offences which prescribe increased penalties for certain existing offences, and provide a wider range of alternative verdicts in road traffic cases and revision of fines to reflect inflation
2. To make supplementary provisions with respect to paid driving instructors by catering for their registration or licensing when giving paid instruction and enforcing those provisions
3. To cater for the seizure, retention and disposal of motor vehicles in cases where they have been driven on roads in contravention of certain prescribed offences
4. To provide further incentives to the film industry to use the Island by extending the period in which a road may be closed to through traffic and other minor changes
5. To permit the designation of improvement lines for the widening of highways, together with the acquisition of land between those lines and the boundaries of highways
6. To ensure better reinstatement of highways opened up by statutory undertakers
7. To make other amendments of a lesser nature with respect to highways and traffic regulation"

To obtain a copy of the consultation documents, please contact Chris.Hannon@gov.im, call him on 01624 685010 or write to Mr Hannon at Department of Infrastructure, Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF. Alternatively, you can view the documents on the Government website, www.gov.im/Consultations.gov.

Any comments on the proposals should be submitted to the Department by no later than 5.00pm on Friday 14 January 2011, either by e-mail to Mr Hannon or by post at Department of Infrastructure, Sea Terminal Buildings, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF.

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