{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Statement of date of birth",
  "text": "The circumstances in which a person specified in section 161(1) of the 1972 Act shall, on being required by a police constable, state his date of birth are as follows:—\n(1) where that person fails to produce forthwith for examination his licence on being required to do so by a police constable under that section; or\n(2) where, on being so required, that person produces a licence—\n(a) which the police constable in question has reason to suspect—\n(i) was not granted to that person;\n(ii) was granted to that person in error; or\n(iii) contains an alteration in the particulars entered on the licence (other than as described in paragraph (b) below) made with intent to deceive; or\n(b) in which the driver number has been altered, removed or defaced.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “driver number” means the number described as the driver number in the licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/485",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1396",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1378/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:24.129660+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."
}