{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1972/section-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1972/section-144.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/20",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1972",
  "path": "section/144",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Exceptions from requirement of third-party insurance or security",
  "text": "(1) Section 143 of this Act shall not apply to a vehicle owned by a person who has deposited and keeps deposited with the Accountant General of the Supreme Court the sum of £15,000, at a time when the vehicle is being driven under the owner's control.\n(2) The said section 143 shall not apply—\n(a) to a vehicle owned by the council of a county, county borough or county district in England or Wales, the Common Council of the City of London, the council of a London borough, the Greater London Council, a county, town or district council in Scotland, or by a joint board or joint committee in England or Wales, or joint committee in Scotland, which is so constituted as to include among its members representatives of any such council, at a time when the vehicle is being driven under the owner's control;\n(b) to a vehicle owned by a police authority or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, at a time when it is being driven under the owner's control, or to a vehicle at a time when it is being driven for police purposes by or under the direction of a constable, or by a person employed by a police authority, or employed by the said Receiver; or\n(c) to a vehicle at a time when it is being driven on a journey to or from any place undertaken for salvage purposes pursuant to Part IX of the 1894 c. 60.Merchant Shipping Act 1894;\n(d) to the use of a vehicle for the purpose of its being furnished in pursuance of a direction under paragraph (b) of section 166(2) of the 1955 c. 18.Army Act 1955 or under the corresponding provision of the 1955 c. 19.Air Force Act 1955;\n(e) to a vehicle owned by the London Transport Executive or by a body which is within the meaning of the 1969 c. 35.Transport (London) Act 1969 (but disregarding section 51(5) of the 1968 c. 73.Transport Act 1968) a wholly-owned subsidiary of that Executive, at a time when the vehicle is being driven under the owner's control.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/20/section/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:09.170683+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."
}