{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2869",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Issue of copies of licences and discs",
  "text": "(1) If a licence or disc has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the person to whom it was issued shall forthwith notify in writing a traffic commissioner.\n(2) If—\n(a) a traffic commissioner is satisfied that a licence or disc has been lost, destroyed or defaced; and\n(b) in the case of a licence or disc which has been defaced, it is surrendered to a traffic commissioner,\na traffic commissioner shall issue a copy (so marked) which shall have effect as the original licence or disc.\n(3) Where a licence or disc has been lost and after a copy has been issued the lost licence or disc is found by or comes into the possession of the licence-holder he shall forthwith return the original licence or disc to a traffic commissioner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 27(1) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 27(2) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 27(3) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in force at 1.1.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2869/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:53.159459+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."
}