{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/14",
  "legislation_title": "Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Forgery and misuse of documents etc.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to the following documents and other things, namely—\n(a) a licence under Part II ... of this Act;\n(ea) a control document issued in pursuance of regulation 4 of the Road Transport (International Passenger Services) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1395);\n(b) a certificate of initial fitness under section 6 of this Act;\n(bb) a notice removing a prohibition under section 9 of this Act;\n(c) a certificate under section 10 of this Act that a vehicle conforms to a type vehicle;\n(d) an operator’s disc under section 18 of this Act;\n(e) a certificate under section 21 of this Act as to the repute, financial standing or professional competence of any person;\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A person who, with intent to deceive—\n(a) forges or alters, or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a document or other thing to which this section applies, or\n(b) makes or has in his possession any document or other thing so closely resembling a document or other thing to which this section applies as to be calculated to deceive,\nshall be liable—\n(i) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years;\n(ii) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.\n(3) In the application of this section to England and Wales—\n“forges” means makes a false document or other thing in order that it may be used as genuine.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 139(3), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 65(1)(ea) inserted (28.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/3413, reg. 10(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1)(ea) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 65(1)(bb) inserted (prosp.) by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 58, 107:1, 126), ss. 23(4), 76(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 65(1)(f) repealed (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 83, Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2(2), Sch., Appendix"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Definition substituted by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), s. 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Definition of 'statutory maximum' in s. 65(3) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Group 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 65(4) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Group 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 65(1)(a) extended by S.I. 1984/748, reg. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 65 extended by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 127(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/14/section/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:23.739394+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."
}