{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-9/paragraph-8A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/8A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Code “driving prohibition requirement”, in relation to a relevant order, means a requirement prohibiting the offender from driving a motor vehicle on a road or other public place.\n(2) A driving prohibition requirement may prohibit the offender—\n(a) from driving at any time in a particular period or at particular times in a particular period;\n(b) from driving any motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of a particular kind;\n(c) from driving on any road or other public place or on a road or other public place in a particular area.\n(3) Where the court makes a relevant order imposing a driving prohibition requirement, the following must be specified in the order—\n(a) the period for which the requirement has effect;\n(b) if the order prohibits the offender from driving at particular times, those times;\n(c) if the order prohibits the offender from driving a motor vehicle of a particular kind, that kind of motor vehicle;\n(d) if the order prohibits the offender from driving on a road or other public place in a particular area, that area.\n(4) A court may impose a driving prohibition requirement whether or not the offence to which the order relates involved—\n(a) the driving of a motor vehicle, or\n(b) the use of a motor vehicle to commit the offence.\n(5) In this paragraph—\n“motor vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 except that for this purpose section 189(1) of that Act is to be read as if paragraph (c) (certain electrically assisted pedal cycles not to be treated as motor vehicles) were omitted;\n“road” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 (see section 192 of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 4A inserted (1.10.2026) by Sentencing Act 2026 (c. 2), ss. 14(7), 49(1); S.I. 2026/772, reg. 3(d) (as amended by S.I. 2026/948, reg. 2)"
    }
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    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2003 c. 44, Sch. 31 para. 3",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/32",
      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 2006 c. 52, s. 183 (as amended)",
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      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
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    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 9 para. 2(1)",
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      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2003 c. 44, Sch. 31 para. 2",
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 2003 c. 44, Sch. 31 para. 2A (as inserted)",
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    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2003 c. 44, Sch. 19A para. 2",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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