Section 311: Continuing offences.

Highways Act 1980 · 1980 c. 66View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XIV: Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions

Where by virtue of any provision of this Act, or of byelaws made under it, a person convicted of an offence is, if the offence in respect of which he was convicted is continued after conviction, guilty of a further offence and liable to a fine for each day on which the offence is so continued, the court before whom the person is convicted of the original offence may fix a reasonable period from the date of conviction for compliance by the defendant with any directions given by the court.

Where a court fixes such a period the defendant is not liable to a fine in respect of the further offence for any day before the expiration of that period.

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