{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-2001/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences and Prescribed Devices) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends section 20 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 to add the offence of using, or keeping, an unlicensed vehicle other than an exempt vehicle on a public road to the offences to which that section, which deals with the admissibility of certain evidence, applies. It also prescribes as devices which may be used to produce evidence under that section automatic number plate recognition systems designed or adapted to record the presence of such a vehicle on a public road.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1814/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:48:58.021526+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."
}