(1)  A court that convicts a person of a prescribed offence involving a vehicle must, if the vehicle was clamped or confiscated under this Division in connection with the prescribed offence, order the person to pay a special compulsory penalty.

(2)  The special compulsory penalty does not displace the penalty specifically prescribed elsewhere for the prescribed offence.

(3)  The order to pay a special compulsory penalty is to be in addition to any other sentencing order the court may make in respect of the person for the prescribed offence, and the court must not take the person's liability to pay the special compulsory penalty into account in determining that other sentencing order.

(4)  This section has effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Sentencing Act 1997 .

(5)  In this section –

special compulsory penalty means a fine of exactly such amount as the regulations prescribe for the purposes of this section.