{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/73",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Evidence by certificate.",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under this Part of this Act or Schedule 9 thereto a certificate signed by or on behalf of a licensing authority and stating—\n(a) that, on any date, a person was or was not the holder of an operator’s licence,. . . . . . granted by the authority;\n(b) the dates of the coming into force and expiration of any such licence. . . granted by the authority;\n(c) the terms and conditions of any operator’s licence. . . granted by the authority;\n(d) that a person is by virtue of an order of the authority disqualified from holding or obtaining an operator’s licence,. . . . . . licence indefinitely or for a specified period;\n(e) that a direction, having effect indefinitely or for a specified period, has been given by the licensing authority under section 69(6) of this Act in relation to any person;\n(f) that, on any date or during any specified period, any such licence. . . granted by the authority was of no effect by reason of a direction that it be suspended,\nshall be evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of the facts stated; and a certificate stating any of the matters aforesaid and purporting to be signed by or on behalf of a licensing authority shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Transport Act 1980 (c. 34, SIF 126), Sch. 9 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 126), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 84 extended by S.I. 1977/1462, reg. 11(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:29.968251+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."
}