{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994/section-62.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/40",
  "legislation_title": "Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Suspension of licences.",
  "text": "(1) Section 17 of the 1981 Act (revocation, suspension etc. of licences) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) After subsection (5) there shall be inserted—\n“(5A) Where a licence is suspended under this section, it remains in force during the time of its suspension subject to the limitation that no vehicles are authorised to be used under it.\n(5B) A traffic commissioner who has suspended a licence under this section may at any time—\n(a) cancel the suspension; or\n(b) with the consent of the holder of the licence, vary the period for which it is suspended.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 62(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 16 Group 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/40/section/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:33.258725+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."
}