{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Unfit and overloaded vehicles: offences.",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) drives a vehicle in contravention of a prohibition under section 69 or 70 of this Act, or\n(b) causes or permits a vehicle to be driven in contravention of such a prohibition, or\n(c) fails to comply within a reasonable time with a direction under section 70(3) of this Act,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for exceptions from subsection (1) above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 71 substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s.14; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 71 restricted (1.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1217, reg.7 (with reg. 11).S. 71 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/71",
    "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."
}