{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-ec-type-approval-regulations-1998/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-ec-type-approval-regulations-1998/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2051",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-ec-type-approval-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Forgery, false statements etc",
  "text": "(1) A person who, with intent to deceive—\n(a) forges, alters or uses a document to which this paragraph applies, or\n(b) lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person a document to which this paragraph applies, or\n(c) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling a document to which this paragraph applies as to be calculated to deceive, shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine, or to both.\n(3) Paragraph (1) applies to an EC type approval certificate and to an EC certificate of conformity.\n(4) A person who, in supplying information or producing documents for the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, or\n(b) produces, provides, sends or otherwise makes use of a document which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly produces, provides, sends or otherwise makes use of a document which is false in a material particular, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2051/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:34.929488+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."
}