{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-72A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-72A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/72A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72A",
  "heading": "Official testing stations.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may provide and maintain stations (in this Part of this Act referred to as “official testing stations”) where inspections of goods vehicles for the purposes of section 72 may be carried out and may provide and maintain the apparatus for carrying out such inspections.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 72 and 72A substituted (1.7.1992) for s. 72 by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1). s.15; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 72A restricted (1.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1217, reg.7 (with reg. 11).S. 72A 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/72A",
    "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."
}