{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-act-1988",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duty of accused to provide licence.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person who is the holder of a licence is prosecuted for an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification,\n(b) there is a hearing, and\n(c) the person attends the hearing,\nthe person must bring the licence to the hearing.\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(1) substituted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(2)(a), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 7(1A) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(2)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 7(1B) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(2)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 7(1C) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(2)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 7(2) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 91(2)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7: 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. 7 extended (1.6.1997) by 1995 c. 13, s. 6, Sch. 1 Pt. II, para. 3(2); S.I. 1997/267, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 7 applied (with modifications) (12.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/2864, reg. 80(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 7 applied with modifications by S.I. 1987/1378, reg. 25(3) (as amended by S.I. 1990/842, reg. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/section/7",
    "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."
}