{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-156",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-156.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/156",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "156",
  "heading": "Power to require evidence of insurance ... on application for vehicle excise licence.",
  "text": "Provision may be made by regulations under section 57 of the Vehicle Excise and RegistrationAct 1994 for requiring a person applying for a licence under that Act in respect of a motor vehicle to produce such evidence as may be prescribed that either—\n(a) on the date when the licence comes into operation there will be in force the necessary policy of insurance ... in relation to the use of the vehicle by the applicant or by other persons on his order or with his permission, or\n(b) the vehicle is a vehicle to which section 143 of this Act does not apply at a time when it is being driven under the owner’s control.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 156 substituted (1.9.1994) by S.I. 1994 c. 22, ss. 63, 66(2), Sch. 3 para. 24(5) (with s. 57(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 156(a) omitted (1.11.2019) by virtue of The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1047), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 19(3) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 156 heading omitted (1.11.2019) by virtue of The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1047), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 19(2) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 156 excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 8(1)(b)(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/156",
    "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."
}