{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-177K",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-177K.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/177K",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "177K",
  "heading": "Effect of custodial sentence or service detention in other cases",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a court makes a driving disqualification order in respect of an offender for an offence, and—\n(a) it imposes a custodial sentence or a sentence of service detention (other than a suspended sentence) on the offender for another offence, or\n(b) a custodial sentence or a sentence of service detention previously imposed on the offender has not expired.\n(2) In determining the disqualification period, the court must, so far as it is appropriate to do so, have regard to the diminished effect of disqualification as a distinct punishment if the person who is disqualified is also detained in pursuance of a custodial sentence or a sentence of service detention.\n(3) But the court may not take into account for this purpose any custodial sentence or sentence of service detention that it imposes on the offender for the offence.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/177K",
    "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."
}