History
PACTS was founded in the debate about the compulsory wearing of seatbelts in the fronts of cars in 1981. Its current chair, Barry Sheerman MP, was instrumental in moving an amendment to the 1981 Transport Act to ensure that seatbelt wearing became a requirement. More recently, it ensured that evidential roadside breath testing equipment was made available to the police and that the police were given the power to seize uninsured vehicles through the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
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