{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Court may take particulars endorsed ... into consideration.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification—\n(a) any existing endorsement on ... his driving record is prima facie evidence of the matters endorsed, and\n(b) the court may, in determining what order to make in pursuance of the conviction, take those matters into consideration.\n(2) This section has effect notwithstanding anything in section 166(1) to (6) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (requirements as to notices of penalties and previous convictions).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 31(1) substituted (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 6(2); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(1) repealed (8.6.2015) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 3 para. 37, Sch. 7(4); S.I. 2015/560, art. 3 (with arts. 4-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 71(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 31 heading repealed (1.4.2009) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), s. 61(1)(10), Sch. 2 para. 6(3), Sch. 7(3); S.I. 2008/3164, art. 4(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 31: 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.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/31",
    "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."
}