{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-wales-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2000/1786",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-wales-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 or under the 1982 Regulations and misuse has led to at least three relevant convictions;\n(b) the applicant fails to provide the local authority with adequate evidence—\n(i) in the case of an individual, that he or she is a person who fits one or more of the descriptions prescribed by regulation 4; or\n(ii) in the case of an institution, that it is an institution eligible to apply for a disabled person’s badge in accordance with regulation 5;\n(c) the applicant fails to pay the fee (if any) chargeable for the issue of a badge; or\n(d) the local authority has reasonable grounds for believing —\n(i) that the applicant is not the person claimed to be; or\n(ii) that the applicant would permit another person (to whom the badge was not issued) to display it on a motor vehicle.\n(3) When 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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.7.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2011/1588",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "word deleted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2012/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words replaced",
      "affecting": "wsi/2012/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2012/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "word deleted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2012/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2012/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2014/3082",
      "affecting_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2000/1786/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:18:41.833619+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."
}