{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2000/59",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Grounds for refusal to issue a badge",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may refuse to issue a badge on any of the grounds specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The grounds are–\n(a) the applicant holds or has held a badge issued under these Regulations ... and misuse has led to a relevant conviction;\n(b) the applicant fails to provide the local authority with adequate evidence–\n(i) in the case of an individual, that he is a person to whom one of the descriptions prescribed by regulation 4 applies or that he is resident in the area of that local authority; or\n(ii) in the case of an organisation, that it is an organisation eligible to apply for a disabled person’s badge in accordance with regulation 5;\n(ba) the applicant already holds a valid badge which has been issued by another issuing authority;\n(c) the applicant fails to pay the fee (if any) chargeable for the issue of a badge;\n(ca) in the case of an application made pursuant to regulation 4(2)(f) or (g), a report by an independent mobility assessor stating that one of the criteria specified in those provisions is satisfied has not been made available to the local authority in a form satisfactory to the local authority; or\n(d) the local authority has reasonable grounds for believing that the applicant–\n(i) is not the person that he claims to be; or\n(ii) would permit another person to whom the badge was not issued to display it on a motor vehicle.\n(3) Where a local authority receives an application for a disabled person’s badge and refuses to issue one, it shall give the applicant particulars of the grounds of refusal in its notice of determination.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(a) omitted (1.1.2012) by virtue of The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/410), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(a) substituted (1.1.2012) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/410), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(b)(i) inserted (1.1.2012) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/410), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(b)(ii) substituted (1.4.2007) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/162), regs. 1, 8 (with reg. 10(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(ba) inserted (1.1.2012) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/410), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(ca) inserted (1.9.2012) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/410), regs. 1(2)(b), 2(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.4.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/59/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:34.028743+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."
}