Excessive noise from motor vehicles (FOI)Excessive noise from motor vehicles (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
10 September 2018.Request
A
Has the States of Jersey a law regarding the maximum decibels motor vehicles using the public roads must not exceed?
B
If such a law exists how many prosecutions have there been in the past five years for excessively noisy vehicles?
Response
A
There is a law regarding the maximum decibels motor vehicles using the public road must not exceed. It is the Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 (Articles 59 through to 66). It is available through the following link:
Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998
B
There have been 151 prosecutions in the last five years, however these are for defective or modified exhaust systems and not necessarily for excessive noise above the limit described in Articles 60 and 65 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998.
| | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
Defective Exhaust – Article 59 (2) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) Order 1998 | 23 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 13 | 110 |
| Defective Exhaust System – Article 63 (2) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| Non-Compliant Exhaust – Article 62 (4) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | 5 | | | | 1 | 6 |
| Holed Exhaust System – Article 59 (1) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | 4 |
| Defective Exhaust System- Article 59 (2) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) Order 1998 (Permitting) | | 1 | 1 | | 2 | | 4 |
| Modified Exhaust System – Article 68 (10) (a) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) (Order) 1998 | 1 | | 2 | | | | 3 |
| Illegal Exhaust System - Article 63 (5) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) (Order) 1998 | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 |
| Non-Compliant Exhaust – Article 59 (1) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Non-compliant exhaust system - Article 63(4) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Altered & noisy exhaust system – Article (3)b Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Non-Compliant Exhaust – Article 59 (1) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Defective Exhaust System – Article 59 (1) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Non-Compliant Exhaust System – Article 59 (1) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Unapp.RearExhaustSilencer – Article 63 (3) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | 1 | | | | | | 1 |
| Defective Exhaust System - Article 63 (4) Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 (Permitting) | | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Non-approved exhaust silencer – Article 63 Motor Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Jersey) Order 1998 | 1 | | | | | | 1 |
| Total | 27 | 35 | 24 | 20 | 30 | 15 | 151 |
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