{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-175",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-175.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/175",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "175",
  "heading": "Issue of false documents.",
  "text": "If a person issues—\n(a) any such document as is referred to in section 174(5)(a) or (b) of this Act, or\n(b) a test certificate or certificate of conformity (within the meaning of Part II of this Act),\nand the document or certificate so issued is to his knowledge false in a material particular, he is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1982/49",
      "affecting_title": "Transport Act 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/175",
    "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."
}