{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-66A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-66A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/14",
  "legislation_title": "Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981",
  "path": "section/66A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66A",
  "heading": "Issue of false documents.",
  "text": "(1) If a person issues\n(a) a certificate of initial fitness under section 6 of this Act; or\n(b) a notice removing a prohibition under section 9(1) of this Act;\nwhich he knows to be false in a material particular, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) If a constable, an examiner appointed under section 66A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 or an authorised inspector has reasonable cause to believe that a document produced to him or carried on a vehicle by its driver is a document in relation to which an offence has been committed under this section, he may seize the document.\n(3) The power to seize a document under subsection (2) above includes power to detach a document carried on a vehicle from the vehicle.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 66A inserted (prosp.) by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 58, 107:1, 126), ss. 24(4), 76(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 66A(1)(b) and the word \"or\" directly preceding it repealed (prosp.) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), ss. 83, 84, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 66A(2) substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 22(3); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1982/49",
      "affecting_title": "Transport Act 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/14/section/66A",
    "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."
}