{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Production of licence.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person who is the holder of a licence is convicted of an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification, and\n(b) a court proposes to make, or makes, an order disqualifying the person,\nthe court may require the licence to be produced to it.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) If the holder of the licence ... does not produce it ... as required under this section or section 40 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, section 146 or 147 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 or section 223A or 436A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 , or if the holder of the license does not produce it ... as required by section 40B of the Child Support Act 1991 or paragraph 5 of Schedule 3ZB to the Social Security Administration Act 1992, then, unless he satisfies the court that he has applied for a new licence and has not received it—\n(a) he is guilty of an offence, and\n(b) unless the licence is already treated as being revoked under section 37(1), the licence shall be suspended from the time when its production was required until it ... is produced to the court and shall, while suspended, be of no effect.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 27(1) substituted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(3)(a), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 27(2) repealed (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), ss. 48, 83, Sch. 4 para. 91(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 4(2); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 repealed (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 33(2), Sch. 7(4); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3 (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) inserted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 91(4); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) substituted (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165(1), 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 120"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) substituted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 19, s. 16(5) (with s. 83(6)); S.I. 2000/3354, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) inserted (24.6.2026) by Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (c. 28), ss. 96(5), 109(1) (with s. 105); S.I. 2026/601, reg. 2(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3)(b) inserted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(3)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1990/144, regs. 2(2), 3, Sch. 2 para. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3)(b) substituted (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 33(4); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3(a) (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 27(4) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 4(3); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 27(4A) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 4(4); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 27(5) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 4(4); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1991 c. 48"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 27: power to exclude or modify conferred (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52, SIF 107:1), s. 193A(2)(b) (inserted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 46(2); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 27(1)(2) applied with modifications by S.I. 1987/1378, reg. 25(3) (as amended by S.I. 1990/842, reg. 9)S. 27(1)(3) applied (with modifications) (12.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/2864, reg. 80(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 27(3) applied with modifications by S.I. 1987/1378, reg. 25(3) (as amended by S.I. 1990/842, reg. 9)S. 27(3) applied with modifications (1.1.1998) (EW) by 1997 c. 43, s. 39(5)(b), 40(6); S.I. 1997/2200, art. 3(b)(c) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 27(3) extended by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62, SIF 39:1), s. 44(3)(a) (as amended by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), s. 4, Sch. 3 para. 11(b) )S. 27 extended (1.1.1998) by 1997 c. 43, ss. 39(5)(b), 40(6); S.I. 1997/2200, arts. 3(b)(c), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:29.437010+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."
}