{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Return of badge to issuing authority",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), a disabled person’s badge shall be returned to the issuing authority immediately on the occurrence of any of the following events, namely–\n(a) the expiry of the period for which the badge was issued;\n(b) the death of the holder or, in the case of an organisational badge, the organisation ceasing to exist;\n(c) the holder of the badge ceases to be a disabled person or, in the case of an organisational badge, the organisation ceases to be eligible under regulation 5;\n(d) a replacement badge has been issued under regulation 7 to replace a lost or stolen badge and that badge is subsequently found or recovered;\n(e) the badge has become so damaged or faded as no longer to be adequately legible when displayed on a vehicle or has suffered any other damage which otherwise prevents it from being identified correctly or distinguished from a forgery;\n(f) the badge ceases to be required by the holder or another valid badge is issued to the holder by another issuing authority.\n(1A) A badge need not be returned under paragraph (1)(c) where—\n(a) a person has had entitlement to disability living allowance terminated in accordance with the Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013; and\n(b) immediately before that happened the person was a disabled person by virtue of regulation 4(2)(a) above.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of regulation 10, a disabled person’s badge shall, within the prescribed period, be returned to the issuing authority if the authority gives to the holder a notice–\n(a) stating that the authority refuses to allow the badge to continue in use on account of its misuse leading to a relevant conviction and giving particulars of that misuse; or\n(b) stating that the authority is satisfied that the badge was obtained by false representation or that the holder has purported to transfer the badge to another person.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the prescribed period is–\n(a) where no appeal is made in accordance with regulation 10, the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice under paragraph (2) was issued;\n(b) where any appeal is made in accordance with regulation 10(1) and the appeal is not allowed and no further appeal is made under regulation 10(11), the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the Scottish Ministers give notice of their determination of the appeal;\n(c) where any appeal is made in accordance with regulation 10(11) and the appeal is not allowed, the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the sheriff gives notice of his determination of the appeal.\n(4) The issuing authority may take such action as may be appropriate to recover a disabled person’s badge which the holder is liable to return in accordance with this regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) substituted (8.4.2013) by The Welfare Reform (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/65), regs. 1, 5(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(1) substituted (1.4.2007) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/162), regs. 1, 9(a) (with reg. 10(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(1) substituted (1.4.2007) by The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/162), regs. 1, 9(b) (with reg. 10(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1)(e) 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(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1)(f) 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(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 9(1A) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Welfare Reform (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/65), regs. 1, 5(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(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(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2)(b) 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(6)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}