Invisible legislation #1

UK laws that you know must have have been passed sometime but cannot find in the statute books.

Luxury Sports Saloon Car Ownership of the Road Act 1986

Brought in secretly by the Thatcher government during its second term, the LSSCOR Act gave the drivers of luxury sports saloon cars the right in the UK to the following:

Drive through traffic lights at red

Sit in box junctions as long as they like

Cut into queueing traffic

Change direction without indicating via a bus lane at the last minute to get to the front of a line of traffic at a junction

Seek unlimited damages when a bicyclist inadvertantly 'rides underneath the vehicle without due care or attention resulting in a scratched chassis'

Add thirty per cent of their maternal grandmother's age to any speed limit

Look extraordinately smug when people at parties talk about their new Toyota

Little known fact: this piece of invisible legislation was based partly on the Cyclist's Act of 1945, a little-known piece of post-war Labour law-making that exempted cyclists from noticing zebra-crossings and traffic lights.