{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-103.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/103",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Obtaining licence, or driving, while disqualified.",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of an offence if, while disqualified for holding or obtaining a licence, he—\n(a) obtains a licence, or\n(b) drives a motor vehicle on a road.\n(2) A licence obtained by a person who is disqualified is of no effect (or, where the disqualification relates only to vehicles of a particular class, is of no effect in relation to vehicles of that class).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to disqualification by virtue of section 101 of this Act.\n(5) Subsection (1)(b) above does not apply in relation to disqualification by virtue of section 102 of this Act.\n(6) In the application of subsection (1) above to a person whose disqualification is limited to the driving of motor vehicles of a particular class by virtue of—\n(a) section 102 117 or 117A of this Act, or\n(b) subsection (9) of section 36 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (disqualification until test is passed),\nthe references to disqualification for holding or obtaining a licence and driving motor vehicles are references to disqualification for holding or obtaining a licence to drive and driving motor vehicles of that class.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 103 substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 19; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 103(3) repealed (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 107, Sch. 7 para. 11(1)(2), Sch. 8; S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(g)(i)-(iii)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(4) substituted (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 107, Sch. 7 para. 11(1)(3); S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(g)(i)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(5) substituted (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 107, Sch. 7 para. 11(1)(4), S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(g)(i)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(6) substituted (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 107, Sch. 7 para. 11(1)(5), S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(g)(i)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(6)(a) substituted (23.7.1996 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/1974, reg. 2, Sch. 1 para. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 103 modified (16.8.2006) by The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2167), {art. 27(2)-(4)(6)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 103(1)(b) excluded (17.4.2019) by The Motor Sport on Public Roads (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/138), regs. 1, 6, sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extents to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:34.565959+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."
}