{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-177H",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-177H.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/177H",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "177H",
  "heading": "Driving disqualification: availability",
  "text": "Where a driving disqualification order is available to a court, the court may make a driving disqualification order whether or not it also deals with the offender for the offence in any other way (including where the court makes a service community order, an overseas community order or a suspended sentence order which imposes a driving prohibition requirement).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 177G-177M and cross-heading inserted (1.5.2022 for specified purposes, 1.4.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), ss. 15(3), 24(1); S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(f); S.I. 2023/158, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 177H inserted (1.10.2026) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 14(8), 49(1); S.I. 2026/772, reg. 3(e) (as amended by S.I. 2026/948, reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/177H",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:24.063324+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}